[U-Boot] U-boot for 64bit ARMv8

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

Hi Tom,

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:33:39 -0400, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:10:06AM -0700, Richard Schmitt wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone considering porting/supporting uboot for ARMv8. ?Our initial
> > investigation of boot loader support for ARMv8 indicates that the only
> > boot loader currently being targeted is UEFI. ?
> > 
> > The decisions we need to make are:
> > - Do we move to UEFI on ARM?
> > - Can we leverage someone else's enablement of ARMv8?
> > - Do we provide our own enablement of ARMv8?
> > 
> > Any opinions?
> 
> The general push from ARM Ltd is to use UEFI.  I would strongly suspect
> that there are U-Boot forks that companies that have announced they are
> doing ARMv8 chips have something as a stop-gap until they have the
> functionality they want in uEFI.
> 
> I am quite open to ARMv8 support being added to U-Boot and addressing
> the concerns companies may have.  Sometimes it seems like "GPLv2+" makes
> people think "Project will be moving to GPLv3, RUN AWAY!" when all it
> really means is "Project is GPLv2+, will evaluate the appropriateness of
> later versions".

This is not specific to 64-Bit ARM support, though. GPLv2+ has been
there for very long. Aren't companies educated by now? (I am quite open
to helping spread education, anyway)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.