[U-Boot] [RFC] efi_loader: Add test to boot OpenBSD's efi bootloader

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 10:41:46 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> >> From: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Sun,  6 Aug 2017 12:10:28 -0400
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> Kinda works, but since we don't have an 'exit' command like grub, we
>> >> have to reboot, which leaves the "board" in a bad state (I guess,
>> >> since the next test fails).  I haven't tackled the travis bits to get
>> >> travis to download OpenBSD's bootloader, or other little details like
>> >> that.
>> >
>> > What does the grub "exit" command do?  Simply call EFI_BOOT_SERVICE.Exit()?
>> > Wouldn't be too difficult for me to add a command that does this.
>>
>> Yeah, I think just calls BS->Exit().. that would be quite useful.
>
> Mark committed the change for this and snapshots now have "machine exit"
> and "machine poweroff".
>
> https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7/BOOTARM.EFI
> https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/arm64/BOOTAA64.EFI

Excellent.. I'll update my patch and give this a spin today.

BR,
-R


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