Hints on how to use efi_driver/efi_block_device.c

[Simon Glass]

+Heinrich Schuchardt too

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 08:35, Christian Melki
<christian.melki at t2data.com> wrote:
>
> I was hoping that U-boot would detect BLOCK_IO devices provided by UEFI
> automatically. But I can't see anything attached under lsblk or find
> some other information about this.
> For example, Barebox works just fine on both Virtualbox and real
> hardware in this regard.
>
> Barebox does not have an emmc driver for the real hardware but
> piggybacks off the UEFI protocol for this.
>
> I'm sure that the idea with this U-boot driver is something like that,
> but would appreciate some hints on how to use it.
>
> Ie, standard usage. UEFI boots of a drive, posts some handles(?) to a
> block device and U-boot picks it up, not knowing more about the
> abstracted hardware.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian