2016-01-04 19:56 GMT+03:00 Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com:
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:25:44PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
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I am not aware of anyone using the U-Boot API for grub these days, so I'm not sure it's an incredibly useful goal. The main pain point distros seem to have is to make something that "just works" on all systems out there. Moving into that direction should be our ultimate goal.
Please note that with the generic distro framework U-Boot will grok https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ and
I would say this is pretty alpha spec. How should I specify fallback booting with it? Not to mention that currently grub2 perfectly boots from LVM and MD partitions in my installations and this is not supported in spec (from what I see).
p.s. > Currently there's little cooperation between multiple distributions in dual-boot (or triple, ... multi-boot) setups
Have you ever seen anybody really needed it?
things Just Work. I setup a bunch of SD cards with Debian and Fedora over holiday so I can drop them in whatever board and boot up Linux as a sanity test.
I certainly can see a usecase for kicking off an EFI binary as part of fitting into existing work-flows. But we do already have a something for getting rid of that particular pain-point and it's working :)
-- Tom