[PATCH 00/35] efi: Improvements to U-Boot running on top of UEFI

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:29:46AM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 9:34 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > At present U-Boot can be built as an EFI app, but it is really just for
> > testing, with very few features. Instead, the payload build is used for
> > booting on top of UEFI, where U-Boot takes over the machine immediately
> > and supplies its own drivers.
> >
> > But the app could be made more useful.
> >
> > This series provides access to EFI block devices and the video console
> > within U-Boot. It also restructures the app to make it possible to boot
> > a kernel, although further work is needed to implement this.
> >
> > This can be thought of as making U-Boot perform a little like 'grub', in
> > that it runs purely based on UEFI-provided services.
> >
> > Of course a lot more work is required, but this is a start.
> 
> Thanks for working on this!
> 
> >
> > Note: It would be very useful to include qemu tests of the app and stub
> > in CI.
> >
> > This is available at u-boot-dm/efi-working
> >
> 
> Do you have any idea of why this series did not land on patchwork?

It did, I've just moved it to "Changes Requested" based on the feedback
so far.

-- 
Tom
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