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From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/9] cmd: add efitool command
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:27:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190117042706.GQ20286@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da51693e-4f76-db2c-9fdd-d3fe19a1b164@gmx.de>

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 04:31:35AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 1/15/19 3:55 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > Currently, there is no easy way to add or modify UEFI variables.
> > In particular, bootmgr supports BootOrder/BootXXXX variables, it is
> > quite hard to define them as u-boot variables because they are represented
> > in a complicated and encoded format.
> > 
> > The new command, efitool, helps address these issues and give us
> > more friendly interfaces:
> >  * efitool boot add: add BootXXXX variable
> >  * efitool boot rm: remove BootXXXX variable
> >  * efitool boot dump: display all BootXXXX variables
> >  * efitool boot order: set/display a boot order (BootOrder)
> >  * efitool setvar: set an UEFI variable (with limited functionality)
> >  * efitool dumpvar: display all UEFI variables
> > 
> > As the name suggests, this command basically provides a subset fo UEFI
> > shell commands with simplified functionality.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
> 
> Hello Takahiro,
> 
> thanks a lot for your patch series. The additional command is really useful.
> 
> Unfortunately the implementation of sub-commands does not follow the
> coding style of other sub-commands. Could you please have a look at the
> current doc/README.commands
> 
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/README.commands

OK.

> I think it should be easy to convert your code to follow the
> implementation style suggested there and used all over U-Boot.
>
> Sorry that I did not put this into an earlier comment. I only learnt
> about this recently by a review from Simon and then updated the README.
> 
> Please, add the new file in MAINTAINERS to the EFI PAYLOAD section.

Sure

Thanks,
-Takahiro Akashi


> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-17  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-15  2:55 [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/9] cmd: add efitool for efi environment AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/9] cmd: add efitool command AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  3:31   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  4:27     ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/9] cmd: efitool: add devices command AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  5:09   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  4:48     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 3/9] efi_driver: add name to driver binding protocol AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  3:41   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  5:33     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-17  6:58       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-21  7:47         ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 4/9] cmd: efitool: add drivers command AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  3:39   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 5/9] cmd: efitool: add dh command AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  4:55   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  6:01     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 6/9] cmd: efitool: add images command AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  4:58   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  6:02     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 7/9] cmd: efitool: add memmap command AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  4:26   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  7:03     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 8/9] cmd: efitool: export uefi variable helper functions AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  5:28   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-17  7:30     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  2:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 9/9] cmd: env: add "-e" option for handling UEFI variables AKASHI Takahiro
2019-01-15  3:47   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-01-15 13:23     ` Alexander Graf
2019-01-15 13:26   ` Alexander Graf
2019-01-15  9:16 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/9] cmd: add efitool for efi environment Alexander Graf

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