[U-Boot] Pull request for UEFI sub-system for v2019.07-rc2 (2)

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu May 9 11:27:53 UTC 2019


On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 12:15:34AM +0200, Graf, Alexander wrote:
> 
> On 09.05.19 00:03, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >On 5/8/19 7:50 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 07:57:57AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >>
> >>>The following changes since commit
> >>>44237e272f1eac3b026709e76333a07b2d3a3523:
> >>>
> >>>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-sh (2019-05-06
> >>>07:19:31 -0400)
> >>>
> >>>are available in the Git repository at:
> >>>
> >>>git://git.denx.de/u-boot-efi.git tags/efi-2019-07-rc2-2
> >>>
> >>>for you to fetch changes up to
> >>>b015ab57bf558daa1c768995a7a7f1df2d40191e:
> >>>
> >>>efi_loader: signature of ExitBootServices() (2019-05-07 21:10:04
> >>>+0200)
> >>>
> >>>Travis CI results are here:
> >>>https://travis-ci.org/xypron2/u-boot/builds/529448555
> >>>
> >>>Primary key fingerprint: 6DC4 F9C7 1F29 A6FA 06B7  6D33 C481 DBBC
> >>>2C05 1AC4
> >>>
> >>
> >>Note that you may want to run ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --git
> >>origin/master.. or similar as: WARNING: 'follwing' may be misspelled
> >>- perhaps 'following'?
> >>
> >>which I left alone rather than mess up the tag.
> >
> >Sorry I missed that one. Typically I run checkpatch.pl.
> >
> >>
> >>Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
> >>
> >>And all of that said, looking over my before/after builds I see a lot
> >>of size growth, everywhere, due to EFI changes.  I assume this is due
> >>to increasing overall functionality and support, which is good. But
> >>is there perhaps some way we can split things into a minimal "we
> >>have enough to support loading ${OS LOADER}" and then "we are aiming
> >>for large parts of spec compliance" ?  Some days I start to wonder
> >>if "EFI_LOADER on by default" was a bad idea.
> >>
> >
> >The following switches allow to reduce the size of the UEFI subsystem:
> >
> >CONFIG_CMD_BOOTEFI_HELLO, default N
> >CONFIG_CMD_BOOTEFI_SELFTEST, default N except QEMU
> >CONFIG_EFI_UNICODE_CAPITALIZATION, default Y
> >CONFIG_EFI_LOADER_HII
> >(The Makefile does not consider it yet correctly, patch submitted.)
> >CONFIG_CMD_EFIDEBUG, default N
> >CONFIG_CMD_NVEDIT_EFI
> >
> >In doc/README.uefi we describe that we target EBBR compatibility.
> >
> >We have implemented functionality that is not needed for EBBR
> >compatibility but is needed to run the EFI Shell and the conformance
> >tests or iPXE. Here we should think about making it customizable, e.g.
> >
> >lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c
> >lib/efi_driver/*
> >lib/efi_loader/efi_unicode_collation.c
> >lib/efi_loader/efi_variable.c
> >lib/efi_loader/device_path_to_text.c
> >lib/efi_loader/device_path_utilities.c
> >
> >For the Unicode collation protocol I just sent a patch.
> 
> 
> Do you have size estimates for how much each of those bits are? Where did we
> see the biggest growth? What eats up the most code/data space?
> 
> I think we should aim to ideally incur less than 20kb overhead for an arm
> target. How far are we from that? We used to be at 10kb.

On am335x_evm disabling CONFIG_EFI_LOADER saves 51kb and on pine64-lts
disabling CONFIG_EFI_LOADER saves 75kb.

-- 
Tom
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