[PATCH 1/1] boot: BOOTMETH_DISTRO should select BOOTMETH_EFI_BOOTMGR

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Mon Apr 21 11:43:10 CEST 2025


Distros expect the EFI boot manager to run. It falls back to launching
EFI\BOOT\BOOT<ARCH>.EFI from the ESP.

BOOTMETH_EFILOADER is obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 boot/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/boot/Kconfig b/boot/Kconfig
index fb37d912bc9..89076220adb 100644
--- a/boot/Kconfig
+++ b/boot/Kconfig
@@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ config BOOTMETH_EFILOADER
 	imply CMD_TFTPBOOT if CMD_NET
 	default y
 	help
+	  This bootmeth is obsolete. BOOTMETH_EFI_BOOTMGR takes care of
+	  launching EFI\BOOT\BOOT<ARCH>.EFI if no boot option matches.
+
 	  Enables support for EFI boot using bootdevs. This makes the
 	  bootdevs look for a 'boot<arch>.efi' on each filesystem
 	  they scan. The resulting file is booted after enabling U-Boot's
@@ -648,7 +651,7 @@ config BOOTMETH_DISTRO
 	select BOOTMETH_SCRIPT if CMDLINE # E.g. Armbian uses scripts
 	select BOOTMETH_EXTLINUX  # E.g. Debian uses these
 	select BOOTMETH_EXTLINUX_PXE if CMD_PXE && CMD_NET && DM_ETH
-	select BOOTMETH_EFILOADER if EFI_BINARY_EXEC # E.g. Ubuntu uses this
+	select BOOTMETH_EFI_BOOTMGR if EFI_BINARY_EXEC # E.g. Ubuntu uses this
 
 config SPL_BOOTMETH_VBE
 	bool "Bootdev support for Verified Boot for Embedded (SPL)"
-- 
2.48.1



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