Re: [PATCH] wic: Generate startup.nsh for EFI cases if none found

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:46:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello Tom,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 06:47:07PM +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:03:27PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> > In the case of non-wic images there is logic today to generate a
> >> > startup.nsh file that will be executed by EFI to run the loader that the
> >> > image contains.  In the WIC case is currently depends on that file being
> >> > generated elsewhere and placed in DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE and only used if
> >> > present there.
> >>
> >> What's wrong with this approach?
> >
> > No one ever provides a startup.nsh and everyone that wants one creates
> > the same one line trivial example.  The end result is that no WIC images
> > are Just Bootable on UEFI systems unless you first go and spell that out
> > as the desired booting device.  This isn't an awesome workflow which is
> > why the non-WIC cases make the required startup.nsh :)
> 
> I think it could be done as we did for u-boot-extlinux support.

That's complete overkill for a static one line file.

-- 
Tom

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