Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] efi_loader: more tightly integrate UEFI disks to driver model

Tom Rini
2022-03-09T00:13:30Z

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On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 02:20:15PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Soeren,
>
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 12:15, Soeren Moch <smoch@web.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08.03.22 17:56, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 09:49, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 3/8/22 12:36, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > >>> With this patch set[1] applied, UEFI subsystem maintains a list of its
> > >>> disk objects dynamically at runtime based on block device's probing.
> > >>> (See "issues" below.)
> > >>>
> > >>> [1]https://github.com/t-akashi/u-boot/tree/efi/dm_disk
> > >>
> > >> This series together with Simon's series breaks multiple boards due to
> > >> size constraints:
> > >>
> > >> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi/-/pipelines/11197
> > >>
> > >> Please, investigate how to work around this issue.
> > >
> > > tbs2910 - perhaps we should just drop this board? It doesn't use
> > > DM_SERIAL and still uses OF_EMBED
> >
> > Are we again at the same point? You are breaking working boards with
> > (for these boards) useless additions, and all you come up with is
> > "remove this board". Of course without adding the board maintainer.
>
> I'm just expressing reasonable frustration that this board uses
> OF_EMBED and does not use DM_SERIAL, after all of this time. Why
> should the rest of the U-Boot developers care more about this board
> than the maintainer?

Please keep in mind Simon that we've had zero releases with the
DM_SERIAL migration warning being posted, v2022.04 will be the first
one.

--
Tom

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