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Le ven. 18 juin 2021 =C3=A0 19:17, Tom Rini a =C3=A9cr= it : > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 04:45:48PM -0700, raghu.ncstate@icloud.com wrote: > > [snip] > > I also think it is incorrect to partition platforms into what > u-boot/linux boot/embdedded systems do and what =E2=80=9CUEFI/private cod= e=E2=80=9D does. > UEFI is a huge part of the ARM eco-system and is being used fairly > extensively and supported across different markets and is not private cod= e. > > I don't think "u-boot/linux boot/embedded systems" vs "UEFI/private > code" is the right distinction. It's "device tree/related" vs > "ACPI/related" as the difference between U-Boot (for example) and EDK II > (for another example) on aarch64 booting a system via EFI is that U-Boot > is likely to be passing in a device tree (setting aside what we can do > on x86 as a digression) and EDK II being likely to pass ACPI/related. > In both cases we can quite easily be talking about all of the data > having been written to persistent flash and automatically passed along. > > To riff on a phrase, U-Boot can be quite boring too. > > -- > Tom > --=20 Fran=C3=A7ois-Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Ozog | *Director Linaro Edge & Fog Computi= ng Group* T: +33.67221.6485 francois.ozog@linaro.org | Skype: ffozog