[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/8] arm: efi: Add a hello world test program

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 27 September 2016 at 15:28, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:36:19AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 25.09.16 23:27, Simon Glass wrote:
>> > It is useful to have a basic sanity check for EFI loader support. Add a
>> > 'bootefi hello' command which loads HelloWord.efi and runs it under U-Boot.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Changes in v2: None
>> >
>> >  arch/arm/lib/HelloWorld32.efi  | Bin 0 -> 11712 bytes
>>
>> IIRC U-Boot as a whole is GPL licensed, which means that any binaries
>> shipped inside would also need to be GPL compatibly licensed which again
>> means that the source code (and build instructions?) for this .efi file
>> would need to be part of the tree, no?
>
> Yeah, I'm not super comfortable with this.

Do you think we should drop these binary patches? I could always put
the binaries somewhere along with instructions on how to get them.

I do think it is useful to be able to test the platform though.

Regards,
Simon