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

Once upon a time, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> said:
> > 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.

I get it - trying to deal with more than one loader is a lot of extra
work. I may still try to make an EDK2 RPM for the Pi 4, to work on my
particular issue... if I could get that to build in a Fedora-compatible
way, would that be something I could submit to Fedora? I don't want to
make U-Boot life harder, but having the option (at least on select, aka
one, platforms) might be useful.
--
Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net>
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