[U-Boot] [BUG] U-Boot generates unusable x86_64 EFI binaries

[Bin Meng]

Hi Heinrich,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:40 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> neither the helloworld.efi of qemu-x86_64_defconfig nor the
> u-boot-payload.efi of efi-x86_payload64_defconfig can be started from
> the firmware of my Thinkpad 585 while grubx64.efi works fine.
>
> Looking at the generated PE header I found the following abnormality:
>
> coff.PointerToSymbolTable != 0
> coff.NumberOfSymbols != 0
>
> (using https://github.com/xypron/efi_analyzer)
>
> According to the Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File
> Format Specification - rev 11 - 2017-01-17 these fields should be 0.
>
> The U-Boot executables have these sections which do not exist in
> grubx64.efi, the EFI shell, and the Windows loader:
>
> Section[3] .dynamic
> Section[4] .dynsym
>
> So I think we have to change something in the linking to get usable EFI
> binaries.

Can you please try
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=67541 and let
me know if that solves your problem?

Regards,
Bin