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From: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
To: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	 Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>,
	 Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/35] efi: Improvements to U-Boot running on top of UEFI
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:29:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEUhbmWWNHW8YhEXty_MR0UnntMKCuTZ-G=jO5F-ft13xWoJbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210908133405.696481-1-sjg@chromium.org>

Hi Simon,

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 9:34 PM Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> At present U-Boot can be built as an EFI app, but it is really just for
> testing, with very few features. Instead, the payload build is used for
> booting on top of UEFI, where U-Boot takes over the machine immediately
> and supplies its own drivers.
>
> But the app could be made more useful.
>
> This series provides access to EFI block devices and the video console
> within U-Boot. It also restructures the app to make it possible to boot
> a kernel, although further work is needed to implement this.
>
> This can be thought of as making U-Boot perform a little like 'grub', in
> that it runs purely based on UEFI-provided services.
>
> Of course a lot more work is required, but this is a start.

Thanks for working on this!

>
> Note: It would be very useful to include qemu tests of the app and stub
> in CI.
>
> This is available at u-boot-dm/efi-working
>

Do you have any idea of why this series did not land on patchwork?

Regards,
Bin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-08 13:33 [PATCH 00/35] efi: Improvements to U-Boot running on top of UEFI Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 01/35] x86: Keep symbol information in u-boot ELF file Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 02/35] x86: Create a new header for EFI Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:22   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-09  9:25       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09 19:57         ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 03/35] x86: Show some EFI info with the bdinfo command Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:29   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-09  9:29       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09 20:08         ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 04/35] x86: Tidy up global_data pointer for 64-bit Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:30   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 05/35] efi: Add a script for building and testing U-Boot on UEFI Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 06/35] x86: Create a 32/64-bit selection for the app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:35   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 07/35] efi: Create a 64-bit app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:37   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 08/35] x86: Don't duplicate global_ptr in 64-bit EFI app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 09/35] efi: Add a way to obtain boot services in the app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 10/35] efi: Add video support to " Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:40   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 11/35] RFC: efi: Drop code that doesn't work with driver model Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:44   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-09  9:21       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09 19:57         ` Simon Glass
2021-09-09 20:14           ` Tom Rini
2021-09-09 20:15           ` Mark Kettenis
2021-09-09 20:23             ` Tom Rini
2021-09-09 21:45               ` Mark Kettenis
2021-09-09 22:06                 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-24  2:48                 ` Simon Glass
2021-09-24 10:36                   ` Mark Kettenis
2021-09-24 12:32         ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 12/35] efi: Add EFI uclass for media Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:50   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 13/35] efi: Add a media/block driver for EFI block devices Simon Glass
2021-09-08 17:59   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-09 10:35       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09 19:58         ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 14/35] efi: Locate all block devices in the app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 18:14   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  1:11     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2021-09-09 20:09       ` Simon Glass
2021-09-10  0:50         ` AKASHI Takahiro
2021-09-09 20:09     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 15/35] patman: Use a ValueError exception if tools.Run() fails Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 16/35] binman: Report an error if test files fail to compile Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 17/35] binman: Support reading the offset of an ELF-file symbol Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 18/35] binman: Allow timeout to occur in the image or its section Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 19/35] binman: Tidy up comments on _DoTestFile() Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 20/35] binman: Support updating the dtb in an ELF file Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 21/35] efi: serial: Support arrow keys Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 22/35] bloblist: Move to rST format Simon Glass
2021-09-08 18:18   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 23/35] bloblist: Support allocating the bloblist Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 24/35] x86: Allow booting a kernel from the EFI app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 18:22   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 25/35] x86: Don't process the kernel command line unless enabled Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 26/35] x86: efi: Add room for the binman definition in the dtb Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 27/35] efi: Add comments to struct efi_priv Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 28/35] efi: Fix ll_boot_init() operation with the app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:33 ` [PATCH 29/35] efi: Add a few comments to the stub Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 30/35] efi: Share struct efi_priv between the app and stub code Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 31/35] efi: Move exit_boot_services into a function Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 32/35] efi: Check for failure when initing the app Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 33/35] efi: Mention that efi_info_get() is only used in the stub Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 34/35] efi: Show when allocated pages are used Simon Glass
2021-09-08 18:25   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09  8:57     ` Simon Glass
2021-09-09 10:39       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-09-09 19:58         ` Simon Glass
2021-09-08 13:34 ` [PATCH 35/35] efi: Allow easy selection of serial-only operation Simon Glass
2021-09-09 16:29 ` Bin Meng [this message]
2021-09-09 16:34   ` [PATCH 00/35] efi: Improvements to U-Boot running on top of UEFI Tom Rini

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