From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [EXT] Re: Cavium/Marvell Octeon Support
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:37:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191105083726.0947924009F@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1838672.aZrPjDvGh8@flash>
Dear Aaron,
In message <1838672.aZrPjDvGh8@flash> you wrote:
>
> To be blunt, the current U-Boot EFI driver does not provide the required
> functionality. It would need to be extended in order to work. In addition,
> spinlocks would be required in order to handle the case of reentrancy. Also,
> how does the EFI loader deal with loading multiple applications across
> multiple cores? The block support is the least important part of it. There are
> several other services not related to block devices or network calls.
Maybe you are just trying to squeeze too much of operating system
functionality into a mere boot loader?
Using tools for purposes they have not been designed for has never
been a good idea...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-05 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 3:50 [U-Boot] Cavium/Marvell Octeon Support Aaron Williams
2019-10-24 6:44 ` Chris Packham
2019-10-25 15:13 ` Daniel Schwierzeck
2019-10-26 22:15 ` Tom Rini
2019-10-27 3:08 ` [U-Boot] [EXT] " Aaron Williams
2019-10-27 2:34 ` Aaron Williams
2019-10-29 13:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-10-30 16:20 ` Daniel Schwierzeck
2019-10-30 17:21 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-10-30 21:23 ` Aaron Williams
2019-10-31 10:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-10-31 17:59 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-04 15:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-11-04 16:23 ` Tom Rini
2019-11-05 2:08 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-05 8:37 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2019-11-05 10:22 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-05 11:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-11-05 23:09 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-06 15:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-11-06 22:18 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-07 0:21 ` Tom Rini
2019-11-05 14:15 ` Tom Rini
2019-11-05 1:57 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-05 8:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-11-05 14:16 ` Tom Rini
2019-10-30 22:05 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini
2019-10-30 23:36 ` [U-Boot] [EXT] " Aaron Williams
2019-10-31 10:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-10-31 18:01 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-04 17:22 ` Tom Rini
2019-11-05 2:13 ` Aaron Williams
2019-11-05 14:09 ` Tom Rini
2019-10-31 13:26 ` Tom Rini
2019-10-31 18:04 ` Aaron Williams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-06 0:03 Aaron Williams
2019-11-07 0:34 ` Tom Rini
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