Re: State of ARM port

[Leif Lindholm]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:22:59PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> >> 1. upstream U-Boot prefers extlinux for loading, CONFIG_API is
> >> considered edge case, deprecated. They do not consider GRUB valid reason
> >> to maintain it :)
> > 
> > Do you have any references to this?
> > (Not questioning it, sounds likely, but would like to read through
> > any existing discussions.)
> 
> https://www.marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=140881607132099&w=2
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-October/229915.html (full thread)

It stops at Rafal pointing out it's needed for FreeBSD though.

But certainly there seems to be an ideological clash here.

> https://github.com/openSUSE/perl-bootloader/pull/81#issuecomment-158543744

Hmm. They haven't reported any issues here, or to the Linaro cross-distro
mailing list.

> >> 3 depends on motivation to debug and fix issues; as long as GRUB is not
> >> considered there is none.
> >>
> >> So what should we do with this port?
> > 
> > Unsure.
> > 
> > I have had people start asking me for the arm64 variant, but if the
> 
> arm64 EFI grub port is used as standard in openSUSE. Only U-Boot
> platforms are moving away.
> 
> Or do you mean arm64 U-Boot?

Yeah, sorry, I meant arm64 U-Boot.

/
    Leif