Re: [PATCH 4/7] arm: efi: add a generic efi machine.

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 11:55:39PM -0400, chalianis1@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Chali Anis <chalianis1@gmail.com>
> 
> add a generic arm64 machine that can select the CPU_V8 and the
> required efi payload minimal configs. this machine permits to have
> a clean arm64 efi payload, idealy we don't need the other machine
> that comes from multi arch since they execute code that is specific
> for the correspondig hardware. with this generic efi machine the
> barebox log shell is more clean. to get a pure clean efi payload
> you need to unselect all the other arch machines and keep only the
> EFI ARM64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chali Anis <chalianis1@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index cce71b50eb04..0a098440ddde 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -254,6 +254,18 @@ config ARCH_ZYNQMP
>  	select GPIOLIB
>  	select HAS_MACB
>  
> +config EFI_ARM64
> +	bool "EFI on ARM64"
> +	select CPU_V8
> +	select CPU_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL
> +	select HAVE_EFI_PAYLOAD
> +	select EFI_PAYLOAD
> +	select BOOTM_FITIMAGE
> +    select CLOCKSOURCE_EFI
> +    select DRIVER_VIDEO_EFI_GOP

Do we actually require this driver?

Nit: should be tabs here.

> +	depends on 64BIT
> +	default y if ARCH_MULTIARCH

No default y here please.

Sascha

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