Murali, are you referring to a UEFI boot loader application that boots on an existing UEFI firmware environment? Or when you say bootloader do you mean a new UEFI firmware variant starting at or near the reset vector?

Terminology is getting a bit confusing here since other boot systems may not make a formal distinction, but from a UEFI Spec point of view the platform firmware and OS loader are separate entities.

If you’re referring to a UEFI loader application I would expect this to be generic and theoretically able to boot on any ARM UEFI system.  I would expect SoC-specific stuff to be handled in the UEFI firmware environment.

Thanks,

Eugene

From: Murali Kothandapani [mailto:skp.murali@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 11:43 PM
To: Cohen, Eugene; Girish K S; boot-architecture@lists.linaro.org; olivier.martin@arm.com
Subject: Re: Regarding a git Repository for Vendors supporting Uefi Boot Loader

Olivier Martin,

I am doing the Bootloader for a ARM Cotex A8 based SoC. I started this task with BeagleBoardPkg project in tianocore . Please advice if there is anything else that I need to patch for including my updates.

Regards

Murali

2011/8/26 Cohen, Eugene <eugene@hp.com>

Girish,

Please coordinate this with Olivier Martin from ARM, I believe he is already working on a UEFI loader.  My guess is that we should be able to host this in the existing sourceforge SVN repository used for edk2.  I think it would make sense use of the existing build system, interfaces and libraries already in edk2.  If people wanted to we could probably do some kind thing where a Liano git repo imports the edk2 svn tree.

Thanks!

Eugene Cohen

HP IPG LaserJet

Boise, ID

From: boot-architecture-bounces@lists.linaro.org [mailto:boot-architecture-bounces@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Girish K S
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:32 PM
To: boot-architecture@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Regarding a git Repository for Vendors supporting Uefi Boot Loader

Dear Grant Likely,
                    In the boot architecture meeting held in Linaro connect Q3, we discussed regarding a separate git repository for vendors supporting the Uefi boot loader.
I am responsible for the supporting Uefi for samsung platform. Can you please let me know when the git repository will be available to upstream the UEFI.


Regards
Girish K S

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