[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/21] sandbox: efi_loader support

[Simon Glass]

Hi Alex,

On 18 June 2018 at 09:53, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
> On 06/18/2018 05:22 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> This patch set augments Simon's patch set for efi_loader support
>> in sandbox[1], but cuts off the memory allocation scheme at a different
>> point.
>>
>> According to the UEFI spec, efi_allocate_pages() takes a uint64_t *
>> argument. Via this argument, we get a physical address as input, but
>> emit a pointer as output.
>>
>> With this patch set in place, I can successfully run the selftest suite
>> as well as an aarch64 grub.efi binary. X86_64 grub.efi doesn't work
>> because that one requires inl instructions to work.
>
>
> I've assembled a quick grub.efi that does work in sandbox as it no longer
> accesses I/O ports directly. Patch for it is below.
>
>   http://csgraf.de/tmp2/grub.efi
>
> When building your own, make sure to exclude coreboot (cb*) modules - they
> seem to do something dirty and segfault for me. The other modules seem to
> work fine for me so far.

OK thanks for that. The binary says this for me:

efi_load_pe: Invalid DOS signature

I'm running on x86_64.

I tried the patch below but it still crashes, presumably because of
the coreboot modules. How do I actually exclude them? I cannot see
anything in ./configure --help

Regards,
Simon