From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
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: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 12:34:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210909163455.GD12964@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEUhbmWWNHW8YhEXty_MR0UnntMKCuTZ-G=jO5F-ft13xWoJbQ@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1264 bytes --]
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:29:46AM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> 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?
It did, I've just moved it to "Changes Requested" based on the feedback
so far.
--
Tom
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 659 bytes --]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-09 16:35 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 ` [PATCH 00/35] efi: Improvements to U-Boot running on top of UEFI Bin Meng
2021-09-09 16:34 ` Tom Rini [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20210909163455.GD12964@bill-the-cat \
--to=trini@konsulko.com \
--cc=agraf@csgraf.de \
--cc=bmeng.cn@gmail.com \
--cc=christian.melki@t2data.com \
--cc=ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org \
--cc=sjg@chromium.org \
--cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
--cc=xypron.glpk@gmx.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).