[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 10/13] efi: sandbox: Add a simple 'bootefi test' command

[Simon Glass]

Hi Alex,

On 12 June 2018 at 02:28, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 12.06.18 07:26, Simon Glass wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> This test can be executed without causing problems to the run-time
>> environemnt (e.g. U-Boot does not need to reboot afterwards).
>>
>> For now the test just outputs a message. To try it:
>>
>> ./sandbox/u-boot -c "bootefi test"
>> U-Boot 2017.09-00204-g696c9855fe (Sep 17 2017 - 16:43:53 -0600)
>>
>> DRAM:  128 MiB
>> MMC:
>> Using default environment
>>
>> In:    serial
>> Out:   serial
>> Err:   serial
>> SCSI:  Net:   No ethernet found.
>> IDE:   Bus 0: not available
>> Found 0 disks
>> WARNING: booting without device tree
>> Hello, world!
>> Test passed
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> From Heinrich's comments it sounded like it wouldn't be hard to make the
> selftest work. That sounds more appealing to me to be honest :).

Yes and in fact my hope was to run the tests automatically as part of
'make tests'

But rather than expanding the scope of this series, can we get this in
first? Having EFI support in sandbox is a substantial step forward.

Regards,
Simon