[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] x86: zimage: Support booting Linux kernel from an EFI payload

[Simon Glass]

On 23 August 2018 at 09:24, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> At present Linux kernel loaded from U-Boot as an EFI payload does
> not boot. This fills in kernel's boot params structure with the
> required critical EFI information like system table address and
> memory map stuff so that kernel can obtain essential data like
> runtime services and ACPI table to boot.
>
> With this patch, now U-Boot as an EFI payload becomes much more
> practical: it is another option of kernel bootloader, ie, can be
> a replacement for grub.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  arch/x86/cpu/efi/payload.c    | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h |  1 +
>  arch/x86/lib/zimage.c         |  4 ++++
>  include/efi.h                 |  3 +++
>  4 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

That's good. I'm not a big fan of grub. It was sort-of OK until I
looked at the code.

- Simon