Hi Heinrich, On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 15:47, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 9/6/19 11:04 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Heinrich, > > <snip /> > > > U-Boot is the main boot loader for ARM. I wish that distros would just > > support it (adding what is needed) instead of trying to pretend that > > U-Boot is a variant of UEFI :-) > > Distros may have a different viewpoint than you. They may not want to > add anything boot loader specific and are happy if all systems > independent of their architecture can be booted in the same way, e.g. > via UEFI and GRUB. Cf. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7 > > Currently OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Fedora, and Suse rely on booting via UEFI. > And Debian is ready for it. > > That U-Boot implements the UEFI API and this is in wide use in no way > contradicts U-Boot being the main boot loader for ARM.
Well I am not keen on the complexity and layers of obfuscation created by UEFI, and grub. We have so many layers.... > > Nothing pretended here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > Regards > > Heinrich Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
