[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/7] distro: Add efi pxe boot code

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri May 6 21:28:58 CEST 2016


On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 09:01:07PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:

> Now that we can expose network functionality to EFI applications,
> the logical next step is to load them via pxe to execute them as
> well.
> 
> This patch adds the necessary bits to the distro script to automatically
> load and execute EFI payloads. It identifies the dhcp client as a uEFI
> capable PXE client, hoping the server returns a tftp path to a workable
> EFI binary that we can then execute.
> 
> To enable boards that don't come with a working device tree preloaded,
> this patch also adds support to load a device tree from the /dtb directory
> on the remote tftp server.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> 

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom
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