Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Add LoadFile2 and riscv Linux loader

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 10/16/21 15:39, Nikita Ermakov wrote:
> Hi Daniel, all,
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 21:50 Daniel Kiper, <daniel.kiper@oracle.com
> <mailto:daniel.kiper@oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 07:46:17PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>      > On 6/2/21 23:12, Nikita Ermakov wrote:
>      > > Hello,
>      > >
>      > > This is the second version of the patch series. The patch
>     series is almost the
>      > > same as the previous one except that the Heinrich's suggestions
>     were
>      > > implemented.
>      > >
>      > > This series contains patches to add support for LoadFile2
>     protocol to load
>      > > initrd on EFI systems. Also it contains patches to load Linux
>     kernel with EFI
>      > > stub on riscv platforms and unites arm and riscv codes together
>     into common
>      > > loader code for EFI systems.
>      >
>      > Dear Daniel,
>      >
>      > as all open questions regarding this series have been resolved,
>     please,
>      > consider the series for inclusion into GRUB.
>      >
>      > The RISC-V platform specification requires support for booting
>     via UEFI.
>      > Redhat/Fedora, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu are all working on RISC-V and are
>      > therefore in need of this change.
>
>     Nikita, may I ask you to rebase this patch series on latest master?
>
> Sure, I'll do it in a couple of days.
> I'm sorry, currently I'm a bit busy, I started to work on the Heinrich's
> suggestion to use EFI to update devicetree but didn't finish it yet.
> Probably we can add this part later in the other patch(set). What do you
> think?

Enabling support for the the EFI Device Tree Fixup Protocol is
independent of RISC-V support. For me RISC-V would have priority.

Best regards

Heinrich

>     When it is
>
>     ready I will take a look at it in a week or two. Sorry,
>     I should do this earlier but I am plowing through backlog and trying to
>     not get more stalled patches.
>
>     Daniel
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Nikita
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