+U-Boot Mailing List +Tom Rini
On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 at 15:37, Lean Sheng Tan via coreboot <coreb...@coreboot.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > After 2 years of endless discussions and relentless effort, we officially > landed the V0.9 (and V0.9.1) of Universal Payload Specification (UPL) > yesterday!!! > > V0.9 formally introduces using Device Trees as the standardized Payload > Handoff Format to pass data from Platform Init (e.g. coreboot) to Payload > (e.g. UEFI payload or LinuxBoot). This reduces the data handoff friction and > proprietary handoff formats currently exist in each and every firmware > project (e.g. HOB, coreboot table). > > A brief historical background: Universal Payload started as a sub-project > under Intel's Universal Scalable Firmware Initiative. Since its introduction, > Intel has been actively seeking for the firmware community's input to help > make it a reality, to help standardise a common architecture and interfaces > between Platform Init and Payload. Later on, 9elements actively collaborated > with Intel to work with all major firmware projects (coreboot, U-Boot, edk2, > Linuxboot) with the support of all architecture (x86, Arm, RISC-V). We have > been actively promoting and collecting feedback in every means we could > (mailing lists, OSFC, OCP Global Summit, COSCUP). I could not find words to > summarize the 2 years tireless efforts made by all the UPL contributors: with > about 2-4 meetings per month since May 2022; countless back and forth > discussion and some compromises made in between to find common ground that > fits all Firmware solutions and projects; some technical setbacks with failed > POCs and then persistent testings on coding sites; new expectations and > issues pop up now and there that setback the initial timeline again and > again... I owe all of them my greatest gratitude for their hard work. I would > like to specially thanks Vincent Zimmer from Intel for making this happen in > the first place - early commitment from ARM, Intel/ edk2 / Slimbootloaders > maintainers, Chasel Chiu and Dong Guo, Maximilian Brune and Arther Heymans > from coreboot, Dhaval Sharma and Aaron Durbin from Rivos, and Simon Glass & > Ron Minnich who are both great visionaries in the Open Firmware world. In > short, this is truly the first ever community effort that brings all firmware > communities to collaborate together, in the very common goal to make Open > Source Firmware a better place for everyone. > > For sure, this cannot and never will please everyone, and like all things > there are always many issues in the first revision. Hence, I sincerely pledge > to all of you, to help and contribute to this spec. This is an open > invitation, as we follow the ethos of "For Community, By Community", the > first open source spec that is owned by all the open firmware communities. > > Please refer here for the latest spec: > universalpayload.github.io/spec > > Feel free to contribute here: > https://github.com/UniversalPayload/spec > > WIP coreboot patch: > https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/76591 > > Last but not least, I also wanted to specially thank 9elements Cyber Security > for all the support since the very beginning that helps me to navigate > through all the hurdles and issues for the past 2 years. > Let's continue to work together for a better Open Source Firmware for > everyone. > > Thanks, > Sheng > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- coreb...@coreboot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
