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From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
To: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Cc: "U-Boot Mailing List" <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
	"Ilias Apalodimas" <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
	"Alexander Graf" <agraf@csgraf.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] efi: Make EBBR optional
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:35:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83acc600-b873-a56b-a86e-4e173323c12c@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ1b2cXzFah8yXYUj0gc7S0h3eEgJaO934Wv0djUEqQ2ng@mail.gmail.com>



On 7/2/21 10:38 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 14:11, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 12:36:20PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>>> Avoid enabling the options (EBBR / EFI_LOADER) by default, to save space.
>>>
>>> Resync the CONFIG options also.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>>
>> NAK.  It's very much intentional that we have EFI_LOADER, and then
>> looking ahead, any other options that would be required to be EBBR
>> compliant, be enabled by default on platforms that can support them,
>> rather than optional.
>
> As you can tell, I'm not convinced that EBBR is a good idea, even
> though I can see it is expedient. Anyway I do appreciate your clear
> guidance and direction on this sort of thing and I'm sure many others > do also.

Having a bunch of non-standardized methods to start an operating system
is not really compelling. Currently UEFI is the only widespread,
operating system independent boot standard.

Best regards

Heinrich

>
> Regards,
> Simon
>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-02 18:36 [PATCH v2 0/9] efi: Various tidy-ups and drop the default Simon Glass
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] configs: Resync with savedefconfig Simon Glass
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] Makefile: Drop include/asm directory as well as symlink Simon Glass
2021-07-28 22:56   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] disk: Tidy up #ifdefs in part_efi Simon Glass
2021-07-28 22:56   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-28 23:21   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] Use LIB_UUID with ACPIGEN and FS_BTRFS Simon Glass
2021-07-28 22:56   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] Allow efi_loader header to be included always Simon Glass
2021-07-28 22:56   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] lib: Create a new Kconfig option for charset conversion Simon Glass
2021-07-28 22:57   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] Make EFI_LOADER depend on DM and OF_CONTROL Simon Glass
2021-07-26 22:07   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-28 23:45     ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-07-28 23:55       ` Tom Rini
2021-07-29  1:44         ` Simon Glass
2021-07-29 13:52           ` Tom Rini
2021-07-30 19:02             ` Simon Glass
2021-07-30 21:33               ` Tom Rini
2021-07-30 21:48                 ` Simon Glass
2021-07-30 22:08                   ` Tom Rini
2022-03-28  6:35                     ` Simon Glass
2022-03-28 14:15                       ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] Add an option for EBBR Simon Glass
2021-07-29  0:12   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-07-29  0:40     ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] efi: Make EBBR optional Simon Glass
2021-07-02 20:11   ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 20:38     ` Simon Glass
2021-07-29  0:35       ` Heinrich Schuchardt [this message]
2021-07-02 19:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] efi: Various tidy-ups and drop the default Mark Kettenis
2021-07-02 20:04   ` Simon Glass
2021-07-02 20:19     ` Tom Rini
2021-07-02 20:50       ` Simon Glass

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