From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:56:45 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] EFI payload / application support In-Reply-To: <568A9D08.70303@suse.de> References: <1450792676-109541-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <20151226153103.GW25034@bivouac.eciton.net> <567EC004.8050709@suse.de> <20151226193450.GC25034@bivouac.eciton.net> <568A9D08.70303@suse.de> Message-ID: <20160104165645.GP4093@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:25:44PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: [snip] > I am not aware of anyone using the U-Boot API for grub these days, so > I'm not sure it's an incredibly useful goal. The main pain point distros > seem to have is to make something that "just works" on all systems out > there. Moving into that direction should be our ultimate goal. Please note that with the generic distro framework U-Boot will grok https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ and things Just Work. I setup a bunch of SD cards with Debian and Fedora over holiday so I can drop them in whatever board and boot up Linux as a sanity test. I certainly can see a usecase for kicking off an EFI binary as part of fitting into existing work-flows. But we do already have a something for getting rid of that particular pain-point and it's working :) -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: