On 2 September 2015 at 00:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 11:59 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> This adds support for the Intel BDS, by introducing a define >> 'USE_ARM_BDS' which defaults to TRUE, and can be overridden on >> the build command line. > > Out of curiosity (still in the process of getting my head around the > BDS stuff for my POWER port) ... why not the "Universal" BDS with > separate UiApp ? Or is the IntelBDS a better option for some reason ? >
Excellent question. If you are doing a new port, there is no reason to use the old Intel BDS and you are better off supporting only the new universal BDS. For the ARM platforms, I think we should move to the new BDS at some point, but the QEMU ports (ArmVirtQemu but also OVMF/x86) require non-trivial rework so we will be supporting both the old and the new BDS for some time. For the other ARM platforms, it should indeed be feasible to move straight to the new BDS, but I'd rather have parity between the virtual and actual ARM platforms first before starting work on the new BDS. _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
