[PATCH v4 0/4] cmd: bootefi: refactor the code for bootmgr

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Wed Jan 10 02:16:33 CET 2024


This patch set is motivated by the discussion[1] regarding
CONFIG_BOOTEFI_BOOTMGR option.

# This version (v4) contains only the remaining commits.

At the end, bootefi.c will be decomposed into two parts, one for
providing the command itself and one for implementing helper functions.
EFI_LOADER will now be available without CONFIG_CMDLINE or specifically
CONFIG_CMD_BOOTEFI if invoked via bootmeth/bootstd.

Then, EFI_LOADER library side will be further split into two options
for fine-grain control:
CONFIG_EFI_BINARY_EXEC: execute UEFI binaries which are to be explicitly
    loaded by U-Boot's load commands/functions or other methods
    (like a jtag debugger?)
    It supports bootmeth_efi as well as "bootefi <addr>|hello"(/"bootm"?).

CONFIG_EFI_BOOTMGR: provide EFI boot manger functionality
    It supports bootmeth_efi_mgr as well as "bootefi bootmgr".

As such, We will no longer need CONFIG_EFI_BINARY_EXEC if we want to only
make use of the UEFI boot manger for booting a next stage OS.

Prerequisite
============
This patch set is based on top of the latest "master" branch.

Tests
=====
* ran and passed py/efi_selftest on sandbox locally
  (I saw an error in tcg2 though)
* ran and passed py/test_efi_bootmgr on sandbox locally
* passed CI check (github pull request)

Changes
=======
v4 (Jan 10, 2024)
* rebased onto the latest master branch
* moved binary execution portion of code (EFI_BINARY_EXEC) to
  a new file, efi_bootbin.c, instead of efi_helper.c (patch#1)

v3 (Dec 18, 2023)
* rebased onto Tom's latest next branch
* remove already-merged commits

v2 (Nov 21, 2023)
* rebased onto Tom's next branch
* remove already merged commits
* revise commit messages
* add patch #5 which was split from ex-patch#5
RFC (Oct 26, 2023)

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2023-October/534598.html

AKASHI Takahiro (4):
  efi_loader: split unrelated code from efi_bootmgr.c
  efi_loader: rename BOOTEFI_BOOTMGR to EFI_BOOTMGR
  net: tftp: remove explicit efi configuration dependency
  fs: remove explicit efi configuration dependency

 boot/Kconfig                     |   4 +-
 boot/Makefile                    |   2 +-
 cmd/Kconfig                      |  10 +-
 cmd/efidebug.c                   |   4 +-
 fs/fs.c                          |   7 +-
 include/efi_loader.h             |  28 +-
 lib/efi_loader/Kconfig           |  11 +-
 lib/efi_loader/Makefile          |   3 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c     | 211 +++++++++++++
 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c     | 488 -------------------------------
 lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c |   3 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.c      | 286 ++++++++++++++++++
 net/tftp.c                       |  10 +-
 test/boot/bootflow.c             |   2 +-
 14 files changed, 546 insertions(+), 523 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c

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