[PATCH 24/35] x86: Allow booting a kernel from the EFI app

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Sep 8 15:33:54 CEST 2021


At present this is disabled, but it should work so long as the kernel does
not need EFI services. Enable it and add a note about remaining work.

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

 arch/x86/lib/bootm.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/bootm.c b/arch/x86/lib/bootm.c
index 733dd712570..ff0e9f6a085 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/bootm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/bootm.c
@@ -179,10 +179,14 @@ int boot_linux_kernel(ulong setup_base, ulong load_address, bool image_64bit)
 		* U-Boot is setting them up that way for itself in
 		* arch/i386/cpu/cpu.c.
 		*
-		* Note that we cannot currently boot a kernel while running as
-		* an EFI application. Please use the payload option for that.
+		* Note: this is incomplete for EFI kernels!
+		*
+		* This can boot a kernel while running as an EFI application,
+		* but if the kernel requires EFI support then that support needs
+		* to be enabled first (see EFI_LOADER). Also the EFI information
+		* must enabled with setup_efi_info(). See setup_zimage() for
+		* how this is done with the stub.
 		*/
-#ifndef CONFIG_EFI_APP
 		__asm__ __volatile__ (
 		"movl $0, %%ebp\n"
 		"cli\n"
@@ -191,7 +195,6 @@ int boot_linux_kernel(ulong setup_base, ulong load_address, bool image_64bit)
 		[boot_params] "S"(setup_base),
 		"b"(0), "D"(0)
 		);
-#endif
 	}
 
 	/* We can't get to here */
-- 
2.33.0.153.gba50c8fa24-goog



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