On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:52 PM Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 06:34:11PM -0400, mho...@freebsd.org wrote: > > > From: Mitchell Horne <mho...@freebsd.org> > > > > FreeBSD makes use of u-boot's CONFIG_API to provide a version of its > > standard bootloader for embedded architectures. This series adds the > > necessary support for the RISC-V architecture, along with some small > > fixes to the API demo program for 64-bit systems. > > Adding in the RISC-V maintainer and EFI maintainer. I thought the > intention was for OSes to use the EFI loader here, even for "embedded" ? > Thanks! >
Hi Tom, You are right, EFI is preferred. FreeBSD's loader has two implementations on arm: one that is an EFI application, and one based on this u-boot API (known as "ubldr"). ubldr precedes the EFI implementation by a few years. For RISC-V my intention is also to implement both versions, and ubldr was simpler on FreeBSD's side, so I chose to do that first. Do you think this series is still worth pursuing if u-boot is going the way of EFI? Cheers, Mitchell > -- > Tom
