From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1a2weQ-0008Jb-8o for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:44:02 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50205) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2weO-0008JN-DT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:44:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2weL-0002uE-86 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:44:00 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::22a]:35868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2weL-0002tt-0c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:43:57 -0500 Received: by lfs39 with SMTP id 39so162453623lfs.3 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:43:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GSeRDkUKb65yqqWlRMJfXYLmVOMvuVl2F7nmnMYro9M=; b=I24SKmKnnnuVAvsvrxAZQoQ5PO0Ft26qWLFmObxb4ONNVZ1RYRYXQ0YWK8YOssT3ym +t6deyosAM5hm+65ypQK9ayRfLFUv9gA8E5z+ZvOL0F8PKUk/3ebf/DtheUOoBjszM8h cmGCcmDLr78xeRabyu1uWC15Xo9z3jf729/1DDFdrp9xRsQELdrcIfZq9/D/JL2QUzaf HtyK47ar76RKcXr2tFIWJGoDjpvq3Cbic34YtZBiZK7l25sg/vQpuAr9MLuxMs/F6BbG aGe63iSSkFtCY0PUXSj7gk47pmqY3KBCYTDUE2XWxCMRSNxKyOE91l/XP+YZh5IWCikx 8DmA== X-Received: by 10.25.15.101 with SMTP id e98mr22827077lfi.49.1448783036247; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.41] (ppp91-76-25-247.pppoe.mtu-net.ru. [91.76.25.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id qr6sm5488216lbb.19.2015.11.28.23.43.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:43:55 -0800 (PST) To: The development of GNU GRUB , leif.lindholm@linaro.org From: Andrei Borzenkov Subject: State of ARM port X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <565AACBA.7050503@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:43:54 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c07::22a X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 07:44:01 -0000 It seems that distributions tend to focus on native U-Boot support for extlinux-like configuration and direct loading of Linux kernel/FDT. Recently it came up for openSUSE, reasons were named 1. upstream U-Boot prefers extlinux for loading, CONFIG_API is considered edge case, deprecated. They do not consider GRUB valid reason to maintain it :) 2. GRUB requires patching for each board to set valid link address 3. some general issues on specific boards 1 requires active commitment from U-Boot community, apparently it is lacking. To properly fix 2 we need relocation support in U-Boot; which again returns us to "GRUB not being interesting to U-Boot community" :) 3 depends on motivation to debug and fix issues; as long as GRUB is not considered there is none. So what should we do with this port?