From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from phobos.denx.de (phobos.denx.de [85.214.62.61]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 665CCC433F5 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2022 07:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from h2850616.stratoserver.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by phobos.denx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AD1839A6; Wed, 9 Mar 2022 08:16:33 +0100 (CET) Authentication-Results: phobos.denx.de; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=xs4all.nl Authentication-Results: phobos.denx.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de Received: by phobos.denx.de (Postfix, from userid 109) id 94BEE839A5; Wed, 9 Mar 2022 08:16:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (sibelius.xs4all.nl [83.163.83.176]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by phobos.denx.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E1B583982 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2022 08:16:27 +0100 (CET) Authentication-Results: phobos.denx.de; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=xs4all.nl Authentication-Results: phobos.denx.de; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl Received: from localhost (bloch.sibelius.xs4all.nl [local]) by bloch.sibelius.xs4all.nl (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 41703785; Wed, 9 Mar 2022 08:16:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 08:16:26 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Kettenis To: Tom Rini Cc: sjg@chromium.org, smoch@web.de, takahiro.akashi@linaro.org, masami.hiramatsu@linaro.org, u-boot@lists.denx.de, lukma@denx.de, peng.fan@nxp.com, bmeng.cn@gmail.com, jh80.chung@samsung.com, sr@denx.de, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org, xypron.glpk@gmx.de In-Reply-To: <20220309030035.GR5020@bill-the-cat> (message from Tom Rini on Tue, 8 Mar 2022 22:00:35 -0500) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] efi_loader: more tightly integrate UEFI disks to driver model References: <20220308113657.221101-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <82d88a69-159a-257d-2fcb-b6226bff6fe4@gmx.de> <6465499b-8c7b-daea-1729-628ed9252eea@web.de> <20220309001314.GQ5020@bill-the-cat> <20220309030035.GR5020@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: X-BeenThere: u-boot@lists.denx.de X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.39 Precedence: list List-Id: U-Boot discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de Sender: "U-Boot" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.103.5 at phobos.denx.de X-Virus-Status: Clean > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 22:00:35 -0500 > From: Tom Rini > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 07:32:59PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 17:13, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 02:20:15PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > Hi Soeren, > > > > > > > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 12:15, Soeren Moch wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 08.03.22 17:56, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 09:49, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > > > > >> > > > > > >> On 3/8/22 12:36, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > > > > > >>> With this patch set[1] applied, UEFI subsystem maintains a list of its > > > > > >>> disk objects dynamically at runtime based on block device's probing. > > > > > >>> (See "issues" below.) > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> [1]https://github.com/t-akashi/u-boot/tree/efi/dm_disk > > > > > >> > > > > > >> This series together with Simon's series breaks multiple boards due to > > > > > >> size constraints: > > > > > >> > > > > > >> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi/-/pipelines/11197 > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Please, investigate how to work around this issue. > > > > > > > > > > > > tbs2910 - perhaps we should just drop this board? It doesn't use > > > > > > DM_SERIAL and still uses OF_EMBED > > > > > > > > > > Are we again at the same point? You are breaking working boards with > > > > > (for these boards) useless additions, and all you come up with is > > > > > "remove this board". Of course without adding the board maintainer. > > > > > > > > I'm just expressing reasonable frustration that this board uses > > > > OF_EMBED and does not use DM_SERIAL, after all of this time. Why > > > > should the rest of the U-Boot developers care more about this board > > > > than the maintainer? > > > > > > Please keep in mind Simon that we've had zero releases with the > > > DM_SERIAL migration warning being posted, v2022.04 will be the first > > > one. > > > > Yes, understood :-) For OF_EMBED though...? > > No deadline and 50 boards. And neither should there be. OF_EMBED is the obvious choice when chainloading U-Boot from a proprietary initial loader that loads ELF binaries.