[fedora-arm] Re: U-Boot vs EDK2 on Pi 4

> Starting a different thread since this isn't really about the problem
> someone is having...
>
> Why choose U-Boot for booting on a Pi 4 (or other ARM, but Pi 4 is what
> I've got)? I still have issues with U-Boot not having a way to disable
> serial console (so booting headless with my GPS HAT can be hit or miss,
> sometimes I have to power-cycle to get it to boot). IIRC EDK2 allows
> disabling the serial console so this isn't a problem.
>
> Would it be practical to get EDK2 into Fedora as an alternate boot
> option?

There's a lot of other problems with the EDK2 support, it's fine for
some usecases and not for others.

Given that we have to support U-Boot on all the 100s of other devices
we support U-Boot has always made sense because EDK2 support is a lot
more varied and it ends up being a game of whack-a-mole in
forks/branches so in general it's an order of magnitude less work to
support U-Boot even though it's not perfect, but then nor is EDK2.
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