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

[Daniel Kiper]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:27:15AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> 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.

I concur...

Daniel