Re: [PATCH] efi_loader: Do not enable by default on armv7

[Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 08:45:13AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > > From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
> > > > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:03:58 +0200
> > > >
> > > > On 6/27/21 9:44 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > > We have had EFI loader support enabled by default on armv7 platforms for
> > > > > a long time now.  However, there has been little uptake in the wider
> > > > > community to use EFI loader support as the step to start a generic OS
> > > > > distribution, on this architecture family and the focus has been on
> > > > > armv8 instead.  Disable this by default for armv7 only.
> > > >
> > > > NAK
> > > >
> > > > Please, read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7.
> > >
> > > +1
> > >
> > > OpenBSD/armv7 relies on EFI loader support as well.
> >
> > OK, thanks guys.  I missed the Fedora link and I thought *BSD was still
> > using a custom loader on v7.
> 
> Yes, so Fedora uses UEFI by default for across all arm devices now.
> Linaro also uses it for a bunch of their reference platforms but Ilias
> will be able to better provide details there.
> 

Yes we are also booting every platform with EFI.  And tbh it's not only a
matter of distros that already use it.  Arm itself has the SystemReady
specification [1] which mandates the use of EFI in most of it's flavors (SR,
ES and IR). Keeping in mind U-Boot's EFI support is very close to be 100%
compliant,  I think it's beneficial overall to have pre-canned board configs
that support that.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures/arm-systemready


Cheers
/Ilias