On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 8:42 PM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 7/21/19 11:46 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 7:28 PM Heinrich Schuchardt > >>>>> <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> In GRUB before 2.04 a bug existed which did not allow booting some > >>>>>> ARM32 > >>>>>> boards if U-Boot did not disable caches, cf. > >>>>>> https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2019-July/000933.html > >>>>>> > >>>>>> In ExitBootServices() we were disabling the caches by calling > >>>>>> cleanup_before_linux(). This workaround is not needed anymore. > >>>>> > >>>>> Do we want to remove this straight away? A lot of distributions will > >>>>> take time to move to grub 2.04 because it's been a long time between > >>>>> grub releases so they'll have quite a patch delta to re-align to the > >>>>> new release. Fedora for example will rebase to grub 2.04 in Fedora 32 > >>>>> which will start development end of August but won't be released until > >>>>> next year. > >>>> > >>>> As described below this code does not remove any functionality that was > >>>> active in U-Boot v2019.04 or v2019.07. > >>>> > >>>> I can see nothing in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy > >>>> stopping GRUB 2.04 from being made available for stable Fedora releases. > >>> > >>> The maintainers believe that it's too intrusive to land now and they > >>> want maximum testing time before it gets to stable users, funnily > >>> enough people don't like it when their machines cease to boot. > >> > >> Why should anybody's machines cease to boot? > >> > >> If Fedora does not role out a new U-Boot they are fine. If Fedora roles > >> out a new U-Boot they should role out a matching GRUB and they are fine > >> too. > >> > >> The venturous who build their own U-Boot should know how to role back > >> their system if needed. > > > > You've clearly never maintained a distribution across 1000s of device > > types and 100s of thousands of users. > > > > We will be shipping Fedora 31 with U-Boot 2019.10 and the current > > version of grub that the maintainers wish to support, if that requires > > You do not give any clue which version of GRUB will be shipped with > Fedora 31. Could you, please, clarify this. A link to the Fedora repo > would be helpful. Thanks.
It's 2.02 and a whole of lot of patches, like the rest of the world seems to ship. The git repo is here: https://github.com/rhboot/grub2/tree/fedora-31 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot