From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:54:54 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] U-boot for 64bit ARMv8 In-Reply-To: <20130612163339.GF26693@bill-the-cat> References: <1371042606.30144.YahooMailNeo@web5805.biz.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20130612163339.GF26693@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <20130612185454.1ce57739@lilith> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Tom, On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:33:39 -0400, Tom Rini 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.