[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/6] efi_loader: Allow to compile helloworld.efi w/o bundling it

[Simon Glass]

Hi Alex,

On 17 November 2016 at 10:31, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
> Today we can compile a self-contained hello world efi test binary that
> allows us to quickly verify whether the EFI loader framwork works.
>
> We can use that binary outside of the self-contained test case though,
> by providing it to a to-be-tested system via tftp.
>
> This patch separates compilation of the helloworld.efi file from
> including it in the u-boot binary for "bootefi hello". It also modifies
> the efi_loader test case to enable travis to pick up the compiled file.
> Because we're now no longer bloating the resulting u-boot binary, we
> can enable compilation always, giving us good travis test coverage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm/lib/Makefile                    |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/config.mk                       |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/lib/Makefile                    |  2 +-
>  cmd/Kconfig                              | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  configs/qemu-x86_efi_payload64_defconfig |  1 +
>  lib/efi_loader/Makefile                  |  3 +++
>  test/py/tests/test_efi_loader.py         |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Ick.

Can you not achieve the same effect just by copying the file somewhere?

Regards,
Simon