This is why reference platforms make sense as the canonical example. There's a clear mission to create / support U-Boot with the EFI extensions defined by EBBR.
David On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 at 19:55 Dong Wei <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree > > - DW > - > -----Original Message----- > From: Olof Johansson <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:58 AM > To: Dong Wei <[email protected]> > Cc: David Rusling <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > [email protected]; arm.ebbr-discuss < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] EBBR - Fog, Edge and Device > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Dong Wei <[email protected]> wrote: > > There may be a need for making EBBR more aware to the community. > > > > I ran into a case at Computex last week. Ambedded makes storage servers > using Marvell SoCs. Even though Marvell provides UEFI code for the SoC, > Ambedded chose to do the uboot anyways. > > I think a relevant distinction here is that if someone wants to still do > u-boot, they should strongly consider using a version new enough to > implement EBBR interfaces such as UEFI services. On price-sensitive devices > where you want to optimize flash BOM cost, skipping Tianocore > *can* have cost impact, but if the interfaces are kept compatible that > should be just fine. > > As always, if the SoC vendor provides a reference implementation for their > platforms such that doing the right thing is also doing the easiest thing > when making a derivative product design, everybody wins. > > > -Olof > IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the > information in any medium. Thank you. > -- David A Rusling CTO, Linaro https://linaro.org _______________________________________________ boot-architecture mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/boot-architecture
