Hi Alex, On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 00:57, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > On 11.01.19 05:29, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > > Alex, Heinrich and Simon, > > > > Thank you for your comments, they are all valuable but also make me > > confused as different people have different requirements :) > > I'm not sure that all of us share the same *ultimate* goal here. > > The shared ultimate goal is to "merge" (as Simon put it) dm and efi objects. > > But we have this annoying interim state where we would lose a few boards > because they haven't been converted to DM. That's what keeps us from it.
I don't think that is true anymore. The deadline for patches is effectively 28th January. > > I think what this discussion boils down to is that someone needs to > start prototyping the DM/EFI integration. Start off with a simple > subsystem, like BLK. Then provide a DM path and have a non-DM fallback > still in its own source file that also provides EFI BLK devices. > Eventually we just remove the latter. No fallback, please. As above, it is time to remove code that does not use CONFIG_BLK. > > That way we can then work on getting hotplug working in the DM path, > which is the one we want anyway. For non-DM, you simply miss out on that > amazing new feature, but we don't regress users. Of which there will not be any as of 2019.04. I'm sorry to belabour this point, but I feel quite strongly that we should not be adding new code to old frameworks. We should instead be migrating away from them and deleting them. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
