[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 15/21] efi_loader: add bootmgr

Alexander Graf
2017-09-20T09:08:44Z

On 14.09.17 00:05, Rob Clark wrote:
> Similar to a "real" UEFI implementation, the bootmgr looks at the
> BootOrder and BootXXXX variables to try to find an EFI payload to load
> and boot. This is added as a sub-command of bootefi.
>
> The idea is that the distro bootcmd would first try loading a payload
> via the bootmgr, and then if that fails (ie. first boot or corrupted
> EFI variables) it would fallback to loading bootaa64.efi. (Which
> would then load fallback.efi which would look for \EFI\*\boot.csv and
> populate BootOrder and BootXXXX based on what it found.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>

Would it make sense to convert the bootmgr into a genuine EFI
application now that we have Heinrich's test framework available?

Alex