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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>,
	 Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove the ArmPkg LinuxLoader
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:29:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu9kj0EnCHPxXEm7xCvujCxR0iqvnXTBU36Nu_YPHf4z_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479731290-22497-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

On 21 November 2016 at 12:28, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> The LinuxLoader application is a deprecated development tool that allowed
> Linux kernels to be booted on ARM or arm64 before proper OS loader functionality
> had been implemented. Now that this is the case, both in GRUB and in the
> respective kernel trees, we should no longer be using the LinuxLoader, which
> means it certainly does not belong in a reference code base such as Tiancore.
> So replace or remove existing references (#1, #2) before deleting the code
> altogether (#3)
>
> Ard Biesheuvel (3):
>   EmbeddedPkg/AndroidFastboot: drop dependency on the LinuxLoader
>   BeagleBoardPkg/BeagleBoardPkg.dsc: remove the LinuxLoader application
>   ArmPkg: remove the LinuxLoader application
>

Code can be found here:
https://git.linaro.org/people/ard.biesheuvel/uefi-next.git/log/?h=kill-bill


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-21 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-21 12:28 [PATCH 0/3] Remove the ArmPkg LinuxLoader Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-21 12:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] EmbeddedPkg/AndroidFastboot: drop dependency on the LinuxLoader Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-22 17:07   ` Ryan Harkin
2016-11-21 12:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] BeagleBoardPkg/BeagleBoardPkg.dsc: remove the LinuxLoader application Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-21 12:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] ArmPkg: " Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-21 12:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2016-11-21 17:28   ` [PATCH 0/3] Remove the ArmPkg LinuxLoader Ryan Harkin
2016-11-22 17:09     ` Ryan Harkin
2016-11-25 12:59       ` Ard Biesheuvel

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