On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 02:57:47PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > This is my Christmas present for my openSUSE friends :). > > U-Boot is a great project for embedded devices. However, convincing > everyone involved that only for "a few oddball ARM devices" we need to > support different configuration formats from grub2 when all other platforms > (PPC, System Z, x86) are standardized on a single format is a nightmare. > > So we started to explore alternatives. At first, people tried to get > grub2 running using the u-boot api interface. However, FWIW that one > doesn't support relocations, so you need to know where to link grub2 to > at compile time. It also seems to be broken more often than not. And on > top of it all, it's a one-off interface, so yet another thing to maintain. > > That led to a nifty idea. What if we can just implement the EFI application > protocol on top of U-Boot? Then we could compile a single grub2 binary for > uEFI based systems and U-Boot based systems and as soon as that one's loaded, > everything looks and feels (almost) the same. > > This patch set is the result of pursuing this endeavor.
So, I owe the whole codebase a real review. My very quick question however is, aside from what you had to borrow from wine, can you license everything else as GPL v2 or later rather than LGPL? -- Tom
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