-----Original message----- > From: Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar> > Sent: Friday May 21st, 2021 13:20 > To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev at centos.org>; mark <mark at havak.nl> > Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Consider updating uboot-tools > > > On 20/5/21 14:29, mark wrote: > > Hello list (maintainer of uboot-tools), > > > > I'd like to bring a nice enhancement of u-boot to you attention; > > looks like with commit (1) u-boot will call the efi boot manager before > falling back to the default removable-media location: > > EFI/BOOT on the (fat32) efi partition > > > > If I understand correctly this would take care of the fedora-path patch > issue still carried in CentOS u-boot. > > As a matter of fact fedora dropped the uefi-use-Fedora-specific-path-name.patch > (2) > > > > As per subject: IMHO this is a extra incentive to update the fairly old > uboot-tools :) > > > > > > (1) > > https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/f3866909e35074ea6f50226d40487a180de1132f#diff-0d6dac967f6e3b4225bf29445a4c7fc95450b2da47dcf4e1141a9f466c561fa1 > > > > (2) > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/uboot-tools/c/6209cab21ad85061b66d6be412c5f445b05b3995?branch=rawhide > > Hello Mark, > > Updating uboot has been in my to-do list for a while and it keeps being > delayed due to lack of time. My main problem is that I try to build it > for 7 and 8, armhfp/aarch64 and there are some tools that I need to > backport from Fedora to correctly do that. el8 aarch64 is a bit problematic, the now quite popular aarch64(Rockchip) rk3399 needs a arm 32bit cross compiler, until now used a hack to pull it from epel-7 as it is not present in epel-8. Recently rebuild the cross-toolchian from FC29 (cross-gcc-8.1.1-3) as this fits the major versioning of binutils 2.30.x . Also the device tree compiler in el8 does not ship the python3 wrappers needed to build uboot-tools, Hence did rebuild dtc with the python3 wrapper packaged. Again, as far as I know the above only applies to el8. > I have some PoC tools from a few months ago that I'll try to revive, > we'll see how that goes. Let me know if I can be of some help here! > > Thanks. > Pablo. > >