> Am 04.04.2018 um 14:38 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>: > >> Am 04.04.2018 um 11:14 schrieb Alexander Graf: >>> On 04.04.18 11:08, Guillaume Gardet wrote: >>> Le 04/04/2018 à 10:48, Marcus Schäfer a écrit : >>>>> It seems that new kiwi does not support u-boot (non EFI/Grub2) >>>>> images? Is there a solution/workaround? >>>> I have not ported plain u-boot support to the next generation kiwi, >>>> because >>>> of the effort to move all boards to efi boot. u-boot basically works >>>> as the >>>> EFI firmware being capable to load the grub efi module(s). >>> >>> Yes, but not all boards are supporting EFI with U-Boot. Especially >>> Arndale because "Samsung's bl1 lies at sector 1, overlapping with the >>> EFI GPT, so we can not use EFI". >> >> This is not true. For those boards, we can still use EFI, but need to >> convert to MBR. This is done in uboot-image-install.in in section >> "Convert GPT to MBR if necessary". >> >> The only case I'm aware of where EFI is not a viable option is when we >> rely on U-Boot that is delivered with the system, but doesn't have >> efi_loader enablement. Apart from moonshot and midway I'm not aware of >> any such system still alive. > > Is 32-bit Allwinner working with UEFI by now? Last time I tried it still > fell apart and thus needed boot.scr.
Why does it fall apart? I‘m not aware of anything specific to Allwinner devices that would make it fail. Alex > > Regards, > Andreas > > -- > SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton > HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+ow...@opensuse.org
