[U-Boot] [U-Boot,v5,17/30] efi_loader: Add runtime services

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Mar 17 03:01:35 CET 2016


On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:10:01AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:

> After booting has finished, EFI allows firmware to still interact with the OS
> using the "runtime services". These callbacks live in a separate address space,
> since they are available long after U-Boot has been overwritten by the OS.
> 
> This patch adds enough framework for arbitrary code inside of U-Boot to become
> a runtime service with the right section attributes set. For now, we don't make
> use of it yet though.
> 
> We could maybe in the future map U-boot environment variables to EFI variables
> here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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