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Thursday, February 23 • 3:30pm - 4:20pm
Marrying U-Boot, uEFI and grub2 - Alexander Graf, SUSE

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Booting is hard. Booting in the ARM world is even harder. State of the art are a dozen different boot loaders that may or may not deserve that name. Each gets configured differently and each has its own pros and cons.

As a distribution this is a nightmare. Configuring each and every one of them complicates code that really should be very simple.

To solve the problem, we can just add another layer of abstraction (grub2) on top of another layer of abstraction (uEFI) on top of another layer of abstraction (u-boot). Follow me on a journey on how all those layers can make life easier for the distribution and how much fun uEFI really is.

After this talk, you will know how ARM systems boot, what uEFI really means, how uEFI binaries interact with firmware and how this enables convergence of the Enterprise and Embedded markets.
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Alexander Graf

Principal Software Engineer, SUSE :)
Alexander started working for SUSE about 10 years ago. Since then he worked on fancy things like SUSE Studio, QEMU, KVM, openSUSE and SLES on ARM and U-Boot. Whenever something really useful comes to his mind, he tends to implement it. Among others he did Mac OS X virtualization using... Read More →

Marrying U Boot, UEFI and grub pdf
Thursday February 23, 2017 3:30pm - 4:20pm PST
Broadway III/IV
  Embedded Linux Conference
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