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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Gummiboot fixup
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zsdek04.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOR3GqXSxZw3m+OD3FLCFOR0Gi-v3zNJGe2+3Bhy7R6av7LVhQ@mail.gmail.com> (Esben Haabendal's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:59:49 +0100")

>>>>> "Esben" == Esben Haabendal <esbenhaabendal@gmail.com> writes:

 > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:56 PM Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:
 >> Out of interest, what is the use case for using gummiboot? We recently
 >> added systemd-boot support, so I was considering removing gummiboot as
 >> it is dead upstream.
 >> 
 >> Notice that you currently cannot enable systemd-boot without the rest of
 >> systemd, so that may be a disadvantage.
 >> 

 > In this case, I am upgrading a system which is currently using gummiboot.
 > Switching to systemd-boot does not seem to bring anything meaningful
 > improvements,
 > as gummiboot does the job of booting the system.

Ok. Out of interest, what is gummiboot adding over just directly booting
a Linux kernel with CONFIG_EFI_STUB?

 > And yes, this is not a systemd system, and transforming the entire
 > system to systemd is clearly a big thing compared to just fixing
 > building of gummiboot.

 > I would prefer if we could keep gummiboot support in buildroot for now.

Fine by me. Will you add yourself to DEVELOPERS for gummiboot?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-20 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-19 11:28 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Gummiboot fixup Esben Haabendal
2019-03-19 11:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] gummiboot: use new official upstream git repository Esben Haabendal
2019-03-19 11:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] gummiboot: upgrade to last commit before being removed Esben Haabendal
2019-03-19 11:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] gummiboot: fix compatibility with newer glibc versions Esben Haabendal
2019-03-19 21:02   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-03-19 18:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Gummiboot fixup Peter Korsgaard
     [not found]   ` <CAOR3GqXSxZw3m+OD3FLCFOR0Gi-v3zNJGe2+3Bhy7R6av7LVhQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-03-20 13:46     ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CAOR3GqU17TUskOwG_8DfwrcEt_AJcqzgD8=5j1c2Wa+LVveeSg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-03-20 14:36         ` Peter Korsgaard
2019-03-20 15:03           ` Esben Haabendal
2019-03-20 16:30             ` Peter Korsgaard

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