[U-Boot] [PATCH v10 00/10] efi: Enable sandbox support for EFI loader
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Sat Sep 15 07:00:15 UTC 2018
Hi Alex,
On 15 September 2018 at 08:50, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> A limitation of the EFI loader at present is that it does not build with
> sandbox. This makes it hard to write tests, since sandbox is used for most
> testing in U-Boot.
>
> This series enables the EFI loader feature. It allows sandbox to build and
> run a trivial function which calls the EFI API to output a message.
>
> Also included in v8 is support for running the full EFI self tests. These
> run OK with some tweaks to a few parts of the code.
>
> With v9, various EFI patches have been applied which change things. This
> series includes a partial review of one, which makes 'bootefi test' work.
> But there are still problems with 'bootefi selftest':
>
> As of v10 two selftests fail. I fixed another one in this series. I think
> have removed all paches not essential to getting things running. The
> refactoring patches will be sent separately once these are sorted out.
The only master branch I could find in your tree was a few years old
so I could not rebase on efi. Let me know if you update it. For now
you should be able to skip any patches you have already applied.
Regards,
Simon
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