[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/21] efi_loader: enough UEFI for standard distro boot

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 22:05:23 UTC 2017


This patchset fleshes out EFI_LOADER enough to support booting an
upstream \EFI\BOOT\bootaa64.efi (which then loads fallback.efi and
then eventually the per-distro shim.efi which loads the per-distro
grubaa64.efi) without resorting to hacks to hard-code u-boot to load
a particular distro's grub, or other hacks like setting up the
distro installation as live-media.

Background: with a normal UEFI implementation, the boot process is:

a) firmware (u-boot) looks at BootOrder and the BootXXXX variables
   to try to determine what to boot.
b) the firmware will look at the BootXXXX variables (which contain
   an EFI_LOAD_OPTION "struct" in order specified by BootOrder, and
   will boot the first bootable option.
c) The EFI_LOAD_OPTION specifies a device-path which identifies the
   device and file path of the .efi payload to exectute.

This is implemented with the 'bootefi bootmgr' command.

If there are no bootable options the firmware falls back to loading
\EFI\BOOT\bootaa64.efi (exact name varies depending on arch), which
for distro's using fallback/shim (which should include most modern
linux distros) then loads fallback.efi which uses the
EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTCOL and EFI_FILE_PROTOCOL to search for
any \EFI\*\boot.csv, and will then set BootOrder and BootXXXX EFI
variables accordingly so that on next boot fallback.efi is not
necessary.

The last 5 patches are a bit unrelated, just pulling forward some of
the patches I have from the next patchset, to get Shell.efi and SCT
working.

v2: updates for review comments
v3: rebase on latest master and additional comments

Peter Jones (2):
  part: extract MBR signature from partitions
  efi: add some more device path structures

Rob Clark (19):
  part: move efi_guid_t
  efi: add some missing __packed
  efi_loader: add device-path utils
  efi_loader: drop redundant efi_device_path_protocol
  efi_loader: flesh out device-path to text
  efi_loader: use proper device-paths for partitions
  efi_loader: use proper device-paths for net
  efi_loader: refactor boot device and loaded_image handling
  efi_loader: add file/filesys support
  efi_loader: support load_image() from a file-path
  efi_loader: make pool allocations cacheline aligned
  efi_loader: efi variable support
  efi_loader: add bootmgr
  efi_loader: file_path should be variable length
  efi_loader: set loaded image code/data type properly
  efi_loader: print GUIDs
  efi_loader: split out escape sequence based size query
  efi_loader: Correctly figure out size for vidconsole
  efi_loader: Some console improvements for vidconsole

 cmd/bootefi.c                            | 249 ++++++--------
 disk/part_dos.c                          |  12 +-
 disk/part_efi.c                          |  20 ++
 include/blk.h                            |  18 +
 include/config_distro_bootcmd.h          |   5 +
 include/efi.h                            |  25 ++
 include/efi_api.h                        | 162 ++++++++-
 include/efi_loader.h                     |  62 +++-
 include/part.h                           |   3 +-
 include/part_efi.h                       |   4 -
 include/pe.h                             |   6 +
 lib/efi_loader/Makefile                  |   3 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c             | 180 ++++++++++
 lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c            | 162 +++++++--
 lib/efi_loader/efi_console.c             | 123 ++++---
 lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c         | 563 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path_to_text.c | 242 +++++++++----
 lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c                |  86 +++--
 lib/efi_loader/efi_file.c                | 560 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.c        |  26 ++
 lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c              |   5 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_net.c                 |  24 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_runtime.c             |  17 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_variable.c            | 335 ++++++++++++++++++
 24 files changed, 2538 insertions(+), 354 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c
 create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c
 create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_file.c
 create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_variable.c

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2.13.5



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