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

Simon Glass
2022-03-08T21:20:44Z

Hi Soeren,

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 12:15, Soeren Moch <smoch@web.de> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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?

Regards,
Simon