Am 04.04.2018 um 11:14 schrieb Alexander Graf: > On 04.04.18 11:08, Guillaume Gardet wrote: >> Le 04/04/2018 à 10:48, Marcus Schäfer a écrit : >>>> It seems that new kiwi does not support u-boot (non EFI/Grub2) >>>> images? Is there a solution/workaround? >>> I have not ported plain u-boot support to the next generation kiwi, >>> because >>> of the effort to move all boards to efi boot. u-boot basically works >>> as the >>> EFI firmware being capable to load the grub efi module(s). >> >> Yes, but not all boards are supporting EFI with U-Boot. Especially >> Arndale because "Samsung's bl1 lies at sector 1, overlapping with the >> EFI GPT, so we can not use EFI". > > This is not true. For those boards, we can still use EFI, but need to > convert to MBR. This is done in uboot-image-install.in in section > "Convert GPT to MBR if necessary". > > The only case I'm aware of where EFI is not a viable option is when we > rely on U-Boot that is delivered with the system, but doesn't have > efi_loader enablement. Apart from moonshot and midway I'm not aware of > any such system still alive.
Is 32-bit Allwinner working with UEFI by now? Last time I tried it still fell apart and thus needed boot.scr. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
