[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 16/16] efi: sandbox: Add a simple 'bootefi test' command

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On 4 December 2017 at 15:12, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On 12/04/2017 11:07 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
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>> Hi Heinrich,
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>> On 4 December 2017 at 14:53, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
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>>> On 12/04/2017 10:28 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
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>>>> This jumps to test code which can call directly into the EFI support. It
>>>> does not need a separate image so it is easy to write tests with it.
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>>>> For now the test just outputs a message. To try it:
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>>> Hello Simon,
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>>> why do we need "bootefi test"?
>>> What do you plan to do here which we cannot do in "bootefi selftest?
>>> I think we should unify both.
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>> It runs the hello world test directly without going through a separate app.
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>> This is just a starting point, to get EFI running on sandbox. Of
>> course after that we can do more work to make it run the proper tests.
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> bootefi selftest does not run a separate app either but stays in the same executable.

I still see some value in having a simple test. The existing one seems
to require a U-Boot reboot...?

Regards,
Simon