On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 08:45:13AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > From: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> > > > > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:03:58 +0200 > > > > > > > > On 6/27/21 9:44 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > We have had EFI loader support enabled by default on armv7 platforms > > > > > for > > > > > a long time now. However, there has been little uptake in the wider > > > > > community to use EFI loader support as the step to start a generic OS > > > > > distribution, on this architecture family and the focus has been on > > > > > armv8 instead. Disable this by default for armv7 only. > > > > > > > > NAK > > > > > > > > Please, read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/uEFIforARMv7. > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > OpenBSD/armv7 relies on EFI loader support as well. > > > > OK, thanks guys. I missed the Fedora link and I thought *BSD was still > > using a custom loader on v7. > > Yes, so Fedora uses UEFI by default for across all arm devices now. > Linaro also uses it for a bunch of their reference platforms but Ilias > will be able to better provide details there. >
Yes we are also booting every platform with EFI. And tbh it's not only a matter of distros that already use it. Arm itself has the SystemReady specification [1] which mandates the use of EFI in most of it's flavors (SR, ES and IR). Keeping in mind U-Boot's EFI support is very close to be 100% compliant, I think it's beneficial overall to have pre-canned board configs that support that. [1] https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures/arm-systemready Cheers /Ilias
