[PATCH v5 00/17] enable menu-driven boot device selection
Heinrich Schuchardt
xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Thu Apr 28 18:58:25 CEST 2022
On 4/28/22 18:31, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 4/28/22 10:09, Masahisa Kojima wrote:
>> This patch series adds the menu-driven boot device selection,
>> by extending the existing "bootmenu" to include UEFI and distro_boot
>> related entries, and supports menu-driven UEFI boot variable
>> maintenance.
>>
>> This patch series also includes the removable media support
>> that UEFI specification requires to support.
>>
>> The menu example is as follows.
>>
>> *** U-Boot Boot Menu ***
>>
>> bootmenu_00 : Boot 1. kernel
>> bootmenu_01 : Boot 2. kernel
>> bootmenu_02 : Reset board
>> UEFI BOOT0000 : debian
>> UEFI BOOT0001 : ubuntu
>> UEFI BOOT0002 : mmc0:1
>> UEFI BOOT0003 : mmc0:2
>> UEFI BOOT0004 : nvme0:1
>> UEFI BOOT0005 : nvme0:2
>> UEFI BOOT0006 : usb0:2
>> UEFI BOOT0007 : usb1:1
>> UEFI BOOT0008 : usb1:2
>> distro_boot : usb0
>> distro_boot : scsi0
>> distro_boot : virtio0
>> distro_boot : dhcp
>>
>> Press UP/DOWN to move, ENTER to select, ESC/CTRL+C to quit
>>
>> [How to run on QEMU(arm64)]
>> 1) clone source code
>> $ git clone https://git.linaro.org/people/masahisa.kojima/u-boot.git \
>> -b kojima/bootmenu_v5_upstream_0428 --depth 1
>>
>> 2) prepare U-Boot .config
>> $ make qemu_arm64_menuconfig
>> then, enable CONFIG_CMD_BOOTMENU and CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_MENU_SHOW
>>
>> 3) run on QEMU(arm64) example
>> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,gic-version=3 -cpu cortex-a57 -m
>> 4G -nographic \
>> -no-acpi -bios ./u-boot.bin -hda xxx.img
>>
>> [Major Changes]
>> - rebased to v2022.07-rc1
>> - there is detailed changelog in each commit
>>
>> AKASHI Takahiro (2):
>> efi_loader: export efi_locate_device_handle()
>> efi_loader: bootmgr: add booting from removable media
>>
>> Masahisa Kojima (15):
>> lib/charset: add u16_strlcat() function
>> test: unit test for u16_strlcat()
>> menu: always show the menu regardless of the number of entry
>> menu: menu_get_choice() return -ENOENT if menu item is empty
>> bootmenu: flush input buffer before waiting user key input
>> bootmenu: update bootmenu_entry structure
>> bootmenu: add UEFI boot entry into bootmenu
>> bootmenu: add distro boot entry
>> bootmenu: add Kconfig option not to enter U-Boot console
>> bootmenu: factor out the user input handling
>> efi_loader: menu-driven addition of UEFI boot option
>> efi_loader: menu-driven deletion of UEFI boot variable
>> efi_loader: menu-driven update of UEFI bootorder variable
>> bootmenu: add removable media entries
>> doc:bootmenu: add UEFI boot and distro boot support description
>>
>> cmd/Kconfig | 10 +
>> cmd/bootmenu.c | 807 +++++++++----
>> common/menu.c | 142 ++-
>> doc/usage/cmd/bootmenu.rst | 78 +-
>> include/charset.h | 17 +
>> include/config_distro_bootcmd.h | 14 +-
>> include/efi_default_filename.h | 33 +
>> include/efi_loader.h | 61 +
>> include/menu.h | 20 +
>> lib/charset.c | 22 +
>> lib/efi_loader/Makefile | 1 +
>> lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmenu_maintenance.c | 1245 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c | 50 +-
>> lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c | 59 +-
>> lib/efi_loader/efi_console.c | 81 ++
>> lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c | 11 +
>> lib/efi_loader/efi_file.c | 75 +-
>> test/unicode_ut.c | 50 +
>> 18 files changed, 2518 insertions(+), 258 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 include/efi_default_filename.h
>> create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmenu_maintenance.c
>>
>
> I prepared my test as follows:
>
> make sandbox_defconfig
> CONFIG_CMD_BOOTMENU=y
> CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_MENU_SHOW=y
> PREBOOT=host bind 0 ../sandbox.img
>
> I created ../sandbox.img as GTP partioned image with a single EF00
> partition. Onto the partition I copied lib/efi_loader/helloworld.efi
> into path EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI.
>
> I set up the following boot option:
>
> => efidebug boot dump
> Boot0001:
> attributes: A-- (0x00000001)
> label: hello host 0:1
> file_path:
> /HD(1,GPT,7e5c17c5-3f5f-49d0-ae96-511b21d7f273,0x800,0x3f7df)/EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
>
> data:
> 00000000: 6d 00 79 00 20 00 6d 00 65 00 73 00 73 00 61 00 m.y.
> .m.e.s.s.a.
> 00000010: 67 00 65 00 00 00 g.e...
> => efidebug boot order
> 1: Boot0001: hello host 0:1
> => reset
>
> Now the boot menu looks like this:
>
> *** U-Boot Boot Menu ***
>
> UEFI BOOT0001 : hello host 0:1
> UEFI BOOT0000 : host0:1
> UEFI Boot Manager Maintenance
> U-Boot console
>
> When I select nothing:
>
> try_load_entry: trying to load "hello host 0:1" from
> /HD(1,GPT,7e5c17c5-3f5f-49d0-ae96-511b21d7f273,0x800,0x3f7df)/EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
>
> Booting: hello host 0:1
> Hello, world!
> Running on UEFI 2.9
> Have ACPI 2.0 table
> Have SMBIOS table
> Load options: my message
> Boot device:
> /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/VenHw(bbe4e671-5773-4ea1-9aab-3a7dbf40c482,00)/HD(1,GPT,7e5c17c5-3f5f-49d0-ae96-511b21d7f273,0x800,0x3f7df)
>
> File path: /EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
>
> This is ok.
>
> *** U-Boot Boot Menu ***
>
> UEFI BOOT0001 : hello host 0:1
> UEFI BOOT0000 : host0:1
> UEFI Boot Manager Maintenance
> U-Boot console
>
>
> Press UP/DOWN to move, ENTER to select, ESC/CTRL+C to quit
>
> When I select the second item 'UEFI BOOT0000 : host0:1':
>
> try_load_entry: trying to load "host0:1" from
> /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/VenHw(bbe4e671-5773-4ea1-9aab-3a7dbf40c482,00)/HD(1,GPT,7e5c17c5-3f5f-49d0-ae96-511b21d7f273,0x800,0x3f7df)
>
> Loading Boot0000 'host0:1' failed
>
> After I fixed this in
> [PATCH 1/1] efi_loader: BOOTSANDBOX.EFI is not a default file name
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-April/482763.html
>
> Booting: host 0:1
> Hello, world!
> Running on UEFI 2.9
> Have ACPI 2.0 table
> Have SMBIOS table
> Load options: 곁㣁鿀䇰ƹ瓺훖?
After converting to hex:
acc1 38c1 9fc0 41f0 01b9 74fa d6d6 dee4
This is just your GUID:
#define EFI_BOOTMENU_AUTO_GENERATED_ENTRY_GUID \
EFI_GUID(0x38c1acc1, 0x9fc0, 0x41f0, \
0xb9, 0x01, 0xfa, 0x74, 0xd6, 0xd6, 0xe4, 0xde)
You need to remove it from the load option.
Best regards
Heinrich
> Boot device:
> /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/VenHw(bbe4e671-5773-4ea1-9aab-3a7dbf40c482,00)/HD(1,GPT,7e5c17c5-3f5f-49d0-ae96-511b21d7f273,0x800,0x3f7df)
>
> File path: /\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
>
> See those Chinese letters. Something is going really wrong here.
>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich
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