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

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

Hi Tom,

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:47:18 -0400, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Indeed, it applies to the project as a whole.  I have however, gotten
> some private feedback that to me says that there are companies out there
> afraid that because we retain our "+" we're going to switch to GPLv3 any
> minute, rather than keeping our options open, should some future GPL
> provide a compromise both developers, companies and regular consumers
> can live with.

Maybe some FAQ entry about the licence [version] on the Denx project
might make things easier.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.