From: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] EFI: find EFI system partition by legacy MBR partition type
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:28:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2266771449797332485@scdbackup.webframe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bcafc2b3-e16b-6be9-cb8a-495fd92eab48@suse.de>
Hi,
Alexander Graf wrote:
> U-Boot on x86 does not implement BIOS callbacks, so even if you wanted to
> you couldn't execute an MBR directly.
Oh. Sorry for the noise, then.
> So yes, it only loads proper payloads the same way as it does on ARM.
If the payloads are unlikely to be put into an ISO for other reasons,
then my doubts are appeased.
My best wishes for U-Boot's carreer as EFI firmware on ARM.
If problems appear with the very first stage of booting an ISO 9660
image, then be invited to include me or bug-xorriso at gnu.org in the
discussion.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-06 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-06 9:14 [U-Boot] [PATCH] EFI: find EFI system partition by legacy MBR partition type Andre Przywara
2017-07-06 9:23 ` Alexander Graf
2017-09-18 20:45 ` André Przywara
2017-07-06 10:19 ` Thomas Schmitt
2017-07-06 13:07 ` Andre Przywara
2017-07-06 13:21 ` Alexander Graf
2017-07-06 14:28 ` Thomas Schmitt [this message]
2017-07-06 14:16 ` Thomas Schmitt
2017-07-06 14:31 ` Alexander Graf
2017-07-06 16:46 ` Andre Przywara
2017-07-07 3:57 ` Simon Glass
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