On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:06:47 -0600, Matt Sealey <neko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If your platform has UEFI, then your platform has UEFI - if you built > a multiplatform kernel that needs to boot on U-Boot, then you glued an > EFI stub to it to make it boot. At some point between the stub and the > runtime services driver, you're going through 10,000 lines of code > with the information that it *is* running on top of UEFI completely > lost to the boot process. > > I believe I am also objecting to the idea that the way this is BEST > implemented is to take a stock zImage (decompressor+Image payload) and > glue a stub in front to resolve the interface issue when the > implication is extra complication to the boot process. Adding UEFI support to an existing image type was a design goal when we started. Having yet another image format which is not compatibile with existing firmware adds yet another barrier to migrating from U-Boot to UEFI, or to supporting multiplatforms. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
