[PATCH v6 03/27] efi: Add a media/block driver for EFI block devices
Heinrich Schuchardt
xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Sat Dec 18 09:13:59 CET 2021
On 12/17/21 20:40, Simon Glass wrote:
> Add a block driver which handles read/write for EFI block devices. This
> driver actually already exists ('efi_block') but is not really suitable
> for use as a real U-Boot driver:
>
> - The operations do not provide a udevice
> - The code is designed for running as part of EFI loader, so uses
> EFI_PRINT() and EFI_CALL().
> - The bind method probes the device, which is not permitted
> - It uses 'EFI' as its parent device
>
> The new driver is more 'normal', just requiring its platform data be set
> up in advance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass<sjg at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt<xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
Why are you sending this patch? origin/master has:
d8063dc373eb5ed5b4a31fdd3eecd32cba592696
efi: Add a media/block driver for EFI block devices
Please, rebase your series on origin/master.
Best regards
Heinrich
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