[PATCH v4 00/20] Convert extension support to UCLASS and adds its support to boot flows

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Oct 30 14:38:57 CET 2025


On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:55:37AM +0100, Kory Maincent wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:31:36 -0600
> Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 05:20:11PM +0200, Kory Maincent (TI.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > This series converts the extension board framework to use UCLASS as
> > > requested by Simon Glass, then adds extension support to pxe_utils
> > > and bootmeth_efi (not tested) to enable extension boards devicetree load
> > > in the standard boot process.
> > > 
> > > I can't test the imx8 extension scan enabled by the
> > > imx8mm-cl-iot-gate_defconfig as I don't have this board.
> > > I also can't test the efi bootmeth change as I don't have such board.  
> > 
> > This has fail to build problems on:
> > sandbox_spl sandbox_noinst sandbox_vpl
> 
> Ok I will take a look at these build errors.

Thanks.

> > Seems otherwise fine however, size growth on platforms not utilizing
> > this looks good. It's a big big when you need it, but it's main U-Boot
> > and I think in the end, something we can live with.
> 
> Do you see some improvement I could make in v5 to decrease the footprint of this
> support?

No, I think it's fine enough, just the general growth for these kind of
changes.

-- 
Tom
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