[PATCH v4 09/34] efi: Add EFI uclass for media

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Nov 7 17:43:22 CET 2021


Hi Heinrich,

On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 01:21, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 11/4/21 04:09, Simon Glass wrote:
> > At present UCLASS_EFI is used to represent an EFI filesystem among other
> > things. The description of this uclass is "EFI managed devices" which is
> > pretty vague. The only driver that uses this uclass is in fact not a real
> > U-Boot driver, since its operations do not include a struct udevice.
> >
> > Rather than mess with this, create a new UCLASS_EFI_MEDIA uclass to handle
> > EFI media such as disks. Make this the uclass to use for EFI media so that
> > it can be used with 'part list', for example.
> >
> > The existing implementation using UCLASS_EFI remains as is, for
> > discussion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> > (no changes since v2)
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Add MAINTAINERS entry
> > - Show the correct interface type with 'part list'
> > - Update the commit message to explain things better
> >
> >   MAINTAINERS                      |  3 +++
> >   arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts        |  4 ++++
> >   disk/part.c                      |  5 ++++-
> >   drivers/block/Kconfig            | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/block/Makefile           |  3 +++
> >   drivers/block/blk-uclass.c       |  2 +-
> >   drivers/block/efi-media-uclass.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/block/sb_efi_media.c     | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >   include/dm/uclass-id.h           |  1 +
> >   test/dm/Makefile                 |  1 +
> >   test/dm/efi_media.c              | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   11 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/block/efi-media-uclass.c
> >   create mode 100644 drivers/block/sb_efi_media.c
> >   create mode 100644 test/dm/efi_media.c
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 00ff572d4d2..3e8f10c72fa 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -712,8 +712,11 @@ W:       https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/develop/uefi/u-boot_on_efi.html
> >   F:  board/efi/efi-x86_app
> >   F:  configs/efi-x86_app*
> >   F:  doc/develop/uefi/u-boot_on_efi.rst
> > +F:   drivers/block/efi-media-uclass.c
> > +F:   drivers/block/sb_efi_media.c
> >   F:  lib/efi/efi_app.c
> >   F:  scripts/build-efi.sh
> > +F:   test/dm/efi_media.c
> >
> >   EFI PAYLOAD
> >   M:  Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > diff --git a/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts b/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts
> > index 8cd688e8d26..2cea4a43c87 100644
> > --- a/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts
> > +++ b/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts
> > @@ -498,6 +498,10 @@
> >               compatible = "sandbox,clk-ccf";
> >       };
> >
> > +     efi-media {
> > +             compatible = "sandbox,efi-media";
> > +     };
> > +
> >       eth at 10002000 {
> >               compatible = "sandbox,eth";
> >               reg = <0x10002000 0x1000>;
> > diff --git a/disk/part.c b/disk/part.c
> > index a6a8f7052bd..2560f6a50bc 100644
> > --- a/disk/part.c
> > +++ b/disk/part.c
> > @@ -296,8 +296,11 @@ static void print_part_header(const char *type, struct blk_desc *dev_desc)
> >       case IF_TYPE_VIRTIO:
> >               puts("VirtIO");
> >               break;
> > +     case IF_TYPE_EFI:
> > +             puts("EFI");
> > +             break;
> >       default:
> > -             puts ("UNKNOWN");
> > +             puts("UNKNOWN");
> >               break;
> >       }
> >       printf (" device %d  --   Partition Type: %s\n\n",
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> > index 56a4eec05ac..755fdccb574 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> > @@ -61,6 +61,29 @@ config TPL_BLOCK_CACHE
> >       help
> >         This option enables the disk-block cache in TPL
> >
> > +config EFI_MEDIA
> > +     bool "Support EFI media drivers"
> > +     default y if EFI || SANDBOX
> > +     help
> > +       Enable this to support media devices on top of UEFI. This enables
> > +       just the uclass so you also need a specific driver to make this do
> > +       anything.
> > +
> > +       For sandbox there is a test driver.
> > +
> > +if EFI_MEDIA
> > +
> > +config EFI_MEDIA_SANDBOX
> > +     bool "Sandbox EFI media driver"
> > +     depends on SANDBOX
> > +     default y
> > +     help
> > +       Enables a simple sandbox media driver, used for testing just the
> > +       EFI_MEDIA uclass. It does not do anything useful, since sandbox does
> > +       not actually support running on top of UEFI.
> > +
> > +endif  # EFI_MEDIA
> > +
> >   config IDE
> >       bool "Support IDE controllers"
> >       select HAVE_BLOCK_DEVICE
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/Makefile b/drivers/block/Makefile
> > index 94ab5c6f906..3778633da1d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/Makefile
> > +++ b/drivers/block/Makefile
> > @@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IDE) += ide.o
> >   endif
> >   obj-$(CONFIG_SANDBOX) += sandbox.o
> >   obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_TPL_)BLOCK_CACHE) += blkcache.o
> > +
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_MEDIA) += efi-media-uclass.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_MEDIA_SANDBOX) += sb_efi_media.o
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/blk-uclass.c b/drivers/block/blk-uclass.c
> > index 83682dcc181..2db7ce5de20 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/blk-uclass.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/blk-uclass.c
> > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static enum uclass_id if_type_uclass_id[IF_TYPE_COUNT] = {
> >       [IF_TYPE_SATA]          = UCLASS_AHCI,
> >       [IF_TYPE_HOST]          = UCLASS_ROOT,
> >       [IF_TYPE_NVME]          = UCLASS_NVME,
> > -     [IF_TYPE_EFI]           = UCLASS_EFI,
> > +     [IF_TYPE_EFI]           = UCLASS_EFI_MEDIA,
>
> Don't break existing code. Create a new if_type here.

My understanding is that this is not actually used at present. The
tests appear to pass without trouble.

What problem are you seeing?

Regards,
Simon


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