[RESEND v9 9/9] doc:eficonfig: add documentation for eficonfig command

Masahisa Kojima masahisa.kojima at linaro.org
Tue Jul 19 12:15:07 CEST 2022


Hi Ilias,

On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 at 17:03, Ilias Apalodimas
<ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Kojima-san
>
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 at 17:45, Masahisa Kojima
> <masahisa.kojima at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Add documentation for eficonfig command.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahisa Kojima <masahisa.kojima at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > No change sinch v8
> >
> > Changes in v8:
> > - command name is changed from "efimenu" to "eficonfig"
> >
> > Newly created in v7
> >
> >  doc/usage/cmd/eficonfig.rst | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  doc/usage/index.rst         |  1 +
>
> [...]
>
> > +
> > +The "eficonfig" command is enabled by::
> > +
> > +    CONFIG_CMD_EFICONFIG=y
> > +
> > +If CONFIG_BOOTMENU_DISABLE_UBOOT_CONSOLE is enabled, user can not enter
> > +U-Boot console. In this case, bootmenu can be used to invoke "eficonfig"::
> > +
> > +    CONFIG_USE_PREBOOT=y
> > +    CONFIG_PREBOOT="setenv bootmenu_0 UEFI Maintenance Menu=eficonfig"
>
> Can't we just set it as the default bootcmd? Does it have to be a
> preboot command?

"eficonfig" command is for updating UEFI variables(BOOT#### and
BootOrder, etc.) only.
User can not boot the system with "eficonfig" command, so I think it
is not the desired
option to set it as default bootcmd.

Thanks,
Masahisa Kojima

>
> Thanks
> /Ilias
> > +
> > +See also
> > +--------
> > +* :doc:`bootmenu<bootmenu>` provides a simple mechanism for creating menus with different boot items
> > diff --git a/doc/usage/index.rst b/doc/usage/index.rst
> > index 8b98629d6b..1afbb6bc5d 100644
> > --- a/doc/usage/index.rst
> > +++ b/doc/usage/index.rst
> > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Shell commands
> >     cmd/conitrace
> >     cmd/dm
> >     cmd/echo
> > +   cmd/eficonfig
> >     cmd/env
> >     cmd/event
> >     cmd/exception
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >


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