[PATCH v8 14/25] efi: Mention that efi_info_get() is only used in the stub

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Dec 29 19:57:48 CET 2021


This provides access to EFI tables after U-Boot has exited boot services.
It is not needed in the app since boot services remain alive and we can
just call them whenever needed.

Add a comment to explain this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v6)

Changes in v6:
- Fix 'stuff' typo in comment
- Update to 'This function' in comment

Changes in v2:
- Fix 'as' typo

 include/efi.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/efi.h b/include/efi.h
index 2a84223d235..dbf4ffaaf02 100644
--- a/include/efi.h
+++ b/include/efi.h
@@ -578,6 +578,10 @@ void efi_putc(struct efi_priv *priv, const char ch);
 /**
  * efi_info_get() - get an entry from an EFI table
  *
+ * This function is called from U-Boot proper to read information set up by the
+ * EFI stub. It can only be used when running from the EFI stub, not when U-Boot
+ * is running as an app.
+ *
  * @type:	Entry type to search for
  * @datap:	Returns pointer to entry data
  * @sizep:	Returns pointer to entry size
-- 
2.34.1.448.ga2b2bfdf31-goog



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