On 9/6/19 11:04 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Heinrich,
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U-Boot is the main boot loader for ARM. I wish that distros would just support it (adding what is needed) instead of trying to pretend that U-Boot is a variant of UEFI :-)
Distros may have a different viewpoint than you. They may not want to add anything boot loader specific and are happy if all systems independent of their architecture can be booted in the same way, e.g. via UEFI and GRUB. Cf. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7
Currently OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Fedora, and Suse rely on booting via UEFI. And Debian is ready for it.
That U-Boot implements the UEFI API and this is in wide use in no way contradicts U-Boot being the main boot loader for ARM.
Nothing pretended here ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Regards
Heinrich