RFC: exclude partitions from efi_selftest

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Thu Sep 16 10:02:53 CEST 2021


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Michael Lawnick wrote:
> Am 16.09.2021 um 09:15 schrieb Michael Lawnick:
> > Am 16.09.2021 um 09:12 schrieb AKASHI Takahiro:
> > > Please, as Heinrich suggested, add CONFIG_FS_FAT, in your U-Boot configuration.
> > > 
> > Hmm, I didn't understand that as a suggestion, but as a question for his
> > understanding. Of course I'll give it a try.
> > 
> Sometimes live is such easy. This fixed my issue, THX.
> 
> For the after-math / my understanding:
> - Do I understand correctly that the problem was that 'efi_selftest
> block device' requires FAT support? So shouldn't there be a dependency
> in CONFIG?

Strictly speaking, CONFIG_EFI_LOADER requires FAT per UEFI specification,
and actually it has 'imply FAT'. I don't know why Heinrich uses 'imply'
instead of 'select'.

> - What is the reason/use to iterate through the recognized partitions
> even twice (in .setup and .execute) if they aren't needed/used?

What line of code do you exactly mean by 'in .setup' (and in .execute)?

-Takahiro Akashi

> 
> --
> KR
> Michael


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