[PATCH 1/4] conf: add loader type 'none'

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 04:52:34PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:37:10AM -0500, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Note that the firmware descriptor format already supports u-boot as
> > the firmware type. So in the long run ideally you'd only need to
> > specify
> >
> >   <os firmware='uboot'>
> >
> > and, assuming the uboot-images-riscv64 package is installed on the
> > host, everything should just work.
>
> And that would bring alignment with other architectures approach,
> which is preferrable to adding a special hack needed for riscv,
> because the latter is something that most mgmt apps will forget
> to use.

Absolutely. We still need support for manual firmware selection and
direct kernel boot though.

> Of course even better would be for riscv64 to use UEFI :-)

That should already be possible[1], but it's still unclear whether in
the long run it will become the de facto standard. Either way, it
might take a few more years to get to that point.


[1] https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/edk2/edk2-riscv64/
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization