Bootstd for sunxi

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 10:28:45AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> After the discussion on the call this week and Andre's suggestion of
> putting FEL as the first global boothmeth, I took a look this morning.
> 
> I created a new v7 series without the 'efi_loader: bootstd: Drop
> bootmgr for sunxi' patch.
> 
> It seems to run OK on a Linksprite_pcDuino3 but I'm not sure that is
> enough. The FEL boothmeth is first, which is good. But Heinrich did a
> series to reorder bootmgr which hasn't landed and specifically I had
> concerns about this patch[1].
> 
> Given that Heinrich can't make the calls, I'll talk it through with
> him separately and reply on this thread. For now I don't see much
> benefit in sending the new v7 series, but I can if desired.

The biggest blocking part of the sunxi series became that it showcased
the more generic problem with integration of EFI and standard boot [2]
so yes, getting that resolved first is the next big blocker for trying
to migrate more platforms. It was unclear to me then, and still unclear
to me now what the value is in exposing more platforms to what I believe
ends up being a less than optimal experience is compared with what they
experience today.

But since no one can actually test things out and see what is or is not
different with the switch, yes, you should post v7.

[2]: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20241113150938.1534931-4-sjg@chromium.org/#3418689

-- 
Tom
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