On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:52 PM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 06:34:11PM -0400, mhorne@FreeBSD.org wrote:
From: Mitchell Horne mhorne@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD makes use of u-boot's CONFIG_API to provide a version of its standard bootloader for embedded architectures. This series adds the necessary support for the RISC-V architecture, along with some small fixes to the API demo program for 64-bit systems.
Adding in the RISC-V maintainer and EFI maintainer. I thought the intention was for OSes to use the EFI loader here, even for "embedded" ? Thanks!
Hi Tom,
You are right, EFI is preferred. FreeBSD's loader has two implementations on arm: one that is an EFI application, and one based on this u-boot API (known as "ubldr"). ubldr precedes the EFI implementation by a few years.
For RISC-V my intention is also to implement both versions, and ubldr was simpler on FreeBSD's side, so I chose to do that first. Do you think this series is still worth pursuing if u-boot is going the way of EFI?
Cheers, Mitchell
-- Tom