From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/9] efi_loader: Add "bootefi" command
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 11:58:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151225165828.GC4093@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJs94EYa1nc-9OGv6KzKa08BFZkw-5KivTzELgkoy54zbt_Q-A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> Why just not to implement standard EFI behaviour when EFI looks for
> boot-efi partition and proceed?
>
> If ARM board developers will enable EFI support in the future, we can
> have single one JeOS having all possible dtb in KIWI image.
> BeagleBone Black has its own u-boot on eMMC, and the user need to push
> S2 button to force hardware to use our openSUSE u-boot from SD card.
> Maybe something like that is for other boards. If the single one
> required u-boot feature is to run EFI grub, then we can even don't
> touch preinstalled bootloader, that is not possible now, because we
> need our openSUSE boot scripts.
AFAICT once we have the general support in we can simply extend the
current generic distro framework to have an iteration on "does the
device have the expected EFI boot stuff?" and if so, boot it. Nothing
we need to do in C code here.
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-22 13:57 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] EFI payload / application support Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/9] disk/part.c: Expose a list of available block drivers Alexander Graf
2016-01-14 19:18 ` Tom Rini
2016-01-14 23:11 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-14 23:33 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 0:46 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-15 1:04 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] include/efi_api.h: Add more detailed API definitions Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/9] efi_loader: Add PE image loader Alexander Graf
2015-12-26 16:26 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-14 23:45 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 12:29 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/9] efi_loader: Add boot time services Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 14:15 ` Andreas Färber
2015-12-22 14:31 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-26 18:09 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-15 0:13 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 13:02 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-15 14:14 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 14:21 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-15 17:04 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 3:40 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/9] efi_loader: Add console interface Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/9] efi_loader: Add runtime services Alexander Graf
2015-12-26 18:33 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-15 0:26 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 13:52 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-15 14:15 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 14:22 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/9] efi_loader: Add disk interfaces Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 1:37 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-15 2:40 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/9] efi_loader: Add "bootefi" command Alexander Graf
2015-12-24 11:15 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2015-12-25 9:02 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-25 9:25 ` Andreas Färber
2015-12-25 9:40 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2015-12-25 17:04 ` Tom Rini
2015-12-26 18:55 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-12-27 15:33 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-26 18:45 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-12-25 16:58 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2015-12-22 13:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 9/9] efi_loader: hook up in build environment Alexander Graf
2015-12-22 18:28 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] EFI payload / application support Matwey V. Kornilov
2015-12-22 20:32 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-25 3:29 ` Tom Rini
2015-12-25 8:53 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-25 16:50 ` Tom Rini
2015-12-25 16:53 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2015-12-25 17:00 ` Tom Rini
2016-01-15 3:00 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 3:06 ` Tom Rini
2015-12-25 19:34 ` Blibbet
2015-12-26 15:31 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-12-26 16:27 ` Alexander Graf
2015-12-26 19:34 ` Leif Lindholm
2016-01-04 16:25 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-04 16:56 ` Tom Rini
2016-01-04 18:03 ` Andreas Färber
2016-01-04 18:41 ` Andreas Färber
2016-01-04 19:54 ` Tom Rini
2016-01-04 22:37 ` Dennis Gilmore
2016-01-04 22:48 ` Alexander Graf
2016-01-15 3:40 ` Peter Robinson
2016-01-04 20:11 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2016-01-15 3:32 ` Peter Robinson
2015-12-27 18:10 ` Tom Rini
2015-12-27 18:39 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-12-27 19:48 ` Tom Rini
2016-01-05 20:18 ` Tom Rini
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