On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 04:20:19PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 16:01, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 03:25:32PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 15:09, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 02:24:26AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > > > > > > This series makes a number of improvements to the EFI app. Mostly it > > > > > applies to x86 but the ARM version will share some improvements. > > > > > > > > > > The main updates are: > > > > > - Improve linker scripts and options to detect missing symbols and > > > > > remove unused code > > > > > - Enable bootstd and provide a default which can find an extlinux OS > > > > > on > > > > > EFI media > > > > > - Make the 32/64-bit apps more similar in terms of features and link > > > > > script > > > > > > > > So I give a little, and say Yes to you despite technical misgivings, and > > > > you post yet another big series that's based on your tree with already > > > > rejected changes in it. I do not feel that you are working in good > > > > faith. Please stop, and work in good faith. > > > > > > What specifically would you like me to do for the EFI app? > > > > Well, the three patches you posted and Heinrich accepted were a start. > > You need to build on that, in mainline. As again, the concept was fine, > > the introduction of more technical debt to deal with later was not. > > Yes, I'm doing that. I said to Heinrich that I'd wait to see what > happened with those three patches and then do some more. They are in > CI so I'll post them soon. > > But I also mentioned to Heinrich that I don't think I am the right > person to undertake all the refactoring work - moving EFI-loader code > out to lib/efi etc. I'm not a maintainer for lib/efi_loader and my > track record of getting patches in there is not good. We have the > U-Boot versus EFI memory-allocation problem and my ideas for that have > already been rejected. So at the moment I'm not planning to go that > much further in your tree, unless there is somehow a future meeting of > the minds. Perhaps Heinrich or Linaro will be able to work on it and > then we can re-unify things down the track?
If you are unable to work with other custodians then yes, you will have to wait for someone else to do the work. Since you have so many other things in progress, it would probably benefit them if you focused on that instead. -- Tom
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