On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:10:06AM -0700, Richard Schmitt wrote:
Is anyone considering porting/supporting uboot for ARMv8. ?Our initial investigation of boot loader support for ARMv8 indicates that the only boot loader currently being targeted is UEFI. ?
The decisions we need to make are:
- Do we move to UEFI on ARM?
- Can we leverage someone else's enablement of ARMv8?
- Do we provide our own enablement of ARMv8?
Any opinions?
The general push from ARM Ltd is to use UEFI. I would strongly suspect that there are U-Boot forks that companies that have announced they are doing ARMv8 chips have something as a stop-gap until they have the functionality they want in uEFI.
I am quite open to ARMv8 support being added to U-Boot and addressing the concerns companies may have. Sometimes it seems like "GPLv2+" makes people think "Project will be moving to GPLv3, RUN AWAY!" when all it really means is "Project is GPLv2+, will evaluate the appropriateness of later versions".