+Tom Hi Sebastian,
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 05:08, Sebastian Veit <sebastian.v...@lucimber.com> wrote: > > Dear devs of U-Boot, > > I'd like to know if there's already a work in progress > on the support of the "fairly new" Boot Loader Specification [1]. > > Summary of the new spec: Defines a set of file formats and > naming conventions to allow distribution independent > boot loader menus supportable by multiple bootloaders. > > Don't confuse this specification with the one you've already > implemented for syslinux [2]. It seems like the similar name > confused people in the past [3]. > > Maybe it'll be part of the new bootflow design - that has > been introduced in v2022.07 [4] - some time in the future? I don't know of any ongoing work for this. In fact I'm not sure I've heard of UAPI. It would be possible to implement this as a new bootmeth - see the boot/ directory for other ones. Migration from distro scripts is underway, with the next series likely to be sent by the end of this month. Regards, Simon > > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastian Veit > > > [1] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification/ > [2] https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=EXTLINUX > [3] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-October/344721.html > [4] https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/issues/1