Hi, On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM Jonas Lochmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > grub2 has many features, including different implementations for loading > the linux kernel. At one machine, the "linux" command cannot start > OpenWrt while the "chainloader" command for the same kernel file works. > > Both commands use the same UEFI API, but the surrounding steps are > slightly different. An UEFI native bootloader seems to be similar to > "chainloader" in grub while avoiding a ton of extra features. One of > those bootloaders is systemd-boot, formerly known as gummiboot. > While it contains the name "systemd" and is part of the systemd > codebase, the resulting efi executable can be used independent of > systemd. systemd contains bootctl for managing a systemd-boot > installation, but systemd-boot uses simple text configuration files > so that this is not needed at all.
I read this twice, and still don't know what this patch is trying to accomplish. What problem does this solve, or what new feature does this allow? I am missing a sentence or two explaining what the patch does and why. And you can probably trim the history part, e.g. I don't think it matters much for understanding that it used to be called gummiboot, as entertaining the name is. Best regards, (also) Jonas _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
