[PATCH v8 0/4] bootstd: sunxi: Migrate to standard boot
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 25 22:35:12 CEST 2026
Hi Andre,
On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 10:02, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> This series attempts to migrate all sunxi boards to use standard boot,
> along with a text environment.
>
> According to Heinrich this should not affect bootmgr, since it is a
> global bootmeth. FEL should be OK since it is also a global bootmeth and
> is ordered before bootmgr.
>
> Heinrich has a pending series which moves the ordering of bootmgr to
> speed up the boot and we will talk that through in the coming days.
>
> Changes in v8:
> - Drop 'select' for USB
>
> Changes in v7:
> - Drop bootmgr-disable patch
>
> Changes in v6:
> - Drop patch to revert make efi_mgr bootmeth work for non-sandbox setups
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Reword Kconfig
> - Add a name for the bootflow
> - Drop UUID_GPT_SYSTEM and UUID_GPT_ESP definitions
> - Drop special case for ARM64's devicetree subdir
> - Drop unwanted quotations and indentation in KERNEL_COMPAT path
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Put the FEL bootmeth before all other global bootmeths
> - Convert the other DISTRO_DEFAULTS in the Kconfig too
> - Keep BOOTCMD_SUNXI_COMPAT
> - Keep bootcmd_sunxi_compat if OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT is enabled
>
> Simon Glass (4):
> sunxi: Add a bootmeth for FEL
> sunxi: Move to bootstd
> sunxi: Drop old distro boot variables
> sunxi: Move to text environment
>
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 6 +-
> board/sunxi/sunxi.env | 140 +++++++++++++++++++
> boot/Kconfig | 14 ++
> boot/Makefile | 1 +
> boot/bootmeth_fel.c | 85 ++++++++++++
> include/configs/sunxi-common.h | 238 ---------------------------------
> 6 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 board/sunxi/sunxi.env
> create mode 100644 boot/bootmeth_fel.c
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
> base-commit: 44c4919e9dd6c162b237633ba689441eca9a149c
> branch: std8
Just checking if this series could be applied, please?
Regards,
Simon
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