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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Jun 21 19:45:08 UTC 2018


Hi Alex,

On 21 June 2018 at 03:47, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
> On 06/21/2018 04:44 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Are you using my patch set or yours? In mine this should be fixed.

I'm using the series at u-boot-dm/efi-working - am I missing something else?

>
>> 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
>
>
> When you call grub-mkimage you explicitly pass a list of modules to include.
> In that list, just omit any module that starts with cb :)

In my case I am not specifying a list. I'll see if I can do that. I'm
worried there are a lot of modules to find and specify. I cannot find
documentation on what they are.

Regards,
Simon


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