Re: Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated
On 8/27/19 8:46 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 27-08-19 09:14, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:27 PM Laura Abbott wrote: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulw...@gmail.com/ menuconfig SFI bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support" ---help--- The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method for platform firmware to pass information to the operating system via static tables in memory. Kernel SFI support is required to boot on SFI-only platforms. Currently, all SFI-only platforms are based on the 2nd generation Intel Atom processor platform, code-named Moorestown. For more information, see http://simplefirmware.org Say 'Y' here to enable the kernel to boot on SFI-only platforms. I have no idea how common this is but Fedora does enable this option. If you are interested in salvaging this, please speak up! Grepping config and the kernel it seems Moorestown is the Intel MID platform and we explicitly disable X86_INTEL_MID so I'm not sure it's a problem. Yeah I'm pretty sure this is just for the Intel X86 "phone" SoCs which never went anywhere. As you know I've spend a lot of (spare) time on improving support for Intel Atom based hw (mainly Bay Trail and Cherry Trail tablets) and even I don't care for the phone chips, for one exactly because of SFI, instead of coming with EFI these phones come with some frankenstein firmware AFAIK, I never even bothered getting one to try and make it boot mainline ... TL;DR: I do not think this will missed, actually I think it should be fine to disable it in the Fedora kernels right away. I've just disabled it for the builds which I do from my personal kernel tree. It does not seem to affect any other Kconfig options. Regards, Hans Ah the x86 phone. Such dreams. Thanks for the confirmation Peter and Hans. I'm planning on dropping a bunch of stuff after 5.3 releases so I'll turn it off in rawhide there. Laura ___ kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated
Hi, On 27-08-19 09:14, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:27 PM Laura Abbott wrote: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulw...@gmail.com/ menuconfig SFI bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support" ---help--- The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method for platform firmware to pass information to the operating system via static tables in memory. Kernel SFI support is required to boot on SFI-only platforms. Currently, all SFI-only platforms are based on the 2nd generation Intel Atom processor platform, code-named Moorestown. For more information, see http://simplefirmware.org Say 'Y' here to enable the kernel to boot on SFI-only platforms. I have no idea how common this is but Fedora does enable this option. If you are interested in salvaging this, please speak up! Grepping config and the kernel it seems Moorestown is the Intel MID platform and we explicitly disable X86_INTEL_MID so I'm not sure it's a problem. Yeah I'm pretty sure this is just for the Intel X86 "phone" SoCs which never went anywhere. As you know I've spend a lot of (spare) time on improving support for Intel Atom based hw (mainly Bay Trail and Cherry Trail tablets) and even I don't care for the phone chips, for one exactly because of SFI, instead of coming with EFI these phones come with some frankenstein firmware AFAIK, I never even bothered getting one to try and make it boot mainline ... TL;DR: I do not think this will missed, actually I think it should be fine to disable it in the Fedora kernels right away. I've just disabled it for the builds which I do from my personal kernel tree. It does not seem to affect any other Kconfig options. Regards, Hans ___ kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:27 PM Laura Abbott wrote: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulw...@gmail.com/ > > menuconfig SFI > bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support" > ---help--- > The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method > for platform firmware to pass information to the operating system > via static tables in memory. Kernel SFI support is required to > boot on SFI-only platforms. Currently, all SFI-only platforms are > based on the 2nd generation Intel Atom processor platform, > code-named Moorestown. > > For more information, see http://simplefirmware.org > > Say 'Y' here to enable the kernel to boot on SFI-only platforms. > > I have no idea how common this is but Fedora does enable this option. > If you are interested in salvaging this, please speak up! Grepping config and the kernel it seems Moorestown is the Intel MID platform and we explicitly disable X86_INTEL_MID so I'm not sure it's a problem. P ___ kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulw...@gmail.com/ menuconfig SFI bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support" ---help--- The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method for platform firmware to pass information to the operating system via static tables in memory. Kernel SFI support is required to boot on SFI-only platforms. Currently, all SFI-only platforms are based on the 2nd generation Intel Atom processor platform, code-named Moorestown. For more information, see http://simplefirmware.org Say 'Y' here to enable the kernel to boot on SFI-only platforms. I have no idea how common this is but Fedora does enable this option. If you are interested in salvaging this, please speak up! Thanks, Laura ___ kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org
