Martin Roth via coreboot wrote:
## Objective:
Linux is expecting more and more to use EFI supplied interfaces (UEFI Boot Services in particular, even if many are stubbed out) so like it or not, we’re going to need to support these interfaces.
LOL!
This is super embarrassing for Linux and Linux Foundation, but of course also 100% to be expected. Linux plods along towards absolute uselessness.
How do we approach this without turning coreboot into UEFI.
I think it's mostly a waste of time to try to avoid that. When Linux Foundation dictates technical requirements to coreboot instead of the other way around then the question is not "if" but "when" coreboot becomes UEFI, given that LF groupthinks "firmware == UEFI".
That was bad already in BIOS times, apparently things haven't gotten better.
## Decisions:
- The coreboot repo will host an EDK2 fork for use as a coreboot payload.
I think the planned tighter integration is a significant first step towards coreboot becoming UEFI.
- Definitely no one-size fits all solution here
The challenge is great. The coreboot community must be strong and vigilant to not allow coreboot to get locked into EDK2/UEFI like has already happened with vboot. The vboot case arguably hurts coreboot a lot less, but unfortunately all incentives are wrong for quality!
I don't expect this to go at all well for coreboot, but fingers crossed!
Kind regards
//Peter