On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:22:59PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > >> 1. upstream U-Boot prefers extlinux for loading, CONFIG_API is > >> considered edge case, deprecated. They do not consider GRUB valid reason > >> to maintain it :) > > > > Do you have any references to this? > > (Not questioning it, sounds likely, but would like to read through > > any existing discussions.) > > https://www.marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=140881607132099&w=2 > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-October/229915.html (full thread)
It stops at Rafal pointing out it's needed for FreeBSD though. But certainly there seems to be an ideological clash here. > https://github.com/openSUSE/perl-bootloader/pull/81#issuecomment-158543744 Hmm. They haven't reported any issues here, or to the Linaro cross-distro mailing list. > >> 3 depends on motivation to debug and fix issues; as long as GRUB is not > >> considered there is none. > >> > >> So what should we do with this port? > > > > Unsure. > > > > I have had people start asking me for the arm64 variant, but if the > > arm64 EFI grub port is used as standard in openSUSE. Only U-Boot > platforms are moving away. > > Or do you mean arm64 U-Boot? Yeah, sorry, I meant arm64 U-Boot. / Leif _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
