From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:46:35 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Gummiboot fixup In-Reply-To: (Esben Haabendal's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:59:49 +0100") References: <20190319112852.9592-1-esben.haabendal@gmail.com> <875zseitgs.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <875zsdek04.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Esben" == Esben Haabendal writes: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:56 PM Peter Korsgaard 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