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[U-Boot,4/5] x86: doc: Update EFI loader support

Message ID 1529748231-12859-4-git-send-email-bmeng.cn@gmail.com
State Superseded
Delegated to: Bin Meng
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Series [U-Boot,1/5] x86: timer: tsc: Allow specifying clock rate from device tree again | expand

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Bin Meng June 23, 2018, 10:03 a.m. UTC 
CONFIG_EFI_LOADER is fully supported on x86 now.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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 doc/README.x86 | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Simon Glass June 23, 2018, 2:21 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 23 June 2018 at 04:03, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> CONFIG_EFI_LOADER is fully supported on x86 now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  doc/README.x86 | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Alexander Graf June 25, 2018, 4:46 p.m. UTC | #2 
On 06/23/2018 12:03 PM, Bin Meng wrote:
> CONFIG_EFI_LOADER is fully supported on x86 now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>


Alex
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diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86
index 9f657df..9162ea1 100644
--- a/doc/README.x86
+++ b/doc/README.x86
@@ -1136,9 +1136,34 @@  EFI Support
 U-Boot supports booting as a 32-bit or 64-bit EFI payload, e.g. with UEFI.
 This is enabled with CONFIG_EFI_STUB to boot from both 32-bit and 64-bit
 UEFI BIOS. U-Boot can also run as an EFI application, with CONFIG_EFI_APP.
-The CONFIG_EFI_LOADER option, where U-Booot provides an EFI environment to
+The CONFIG_EFI_LOADER option, where U-Boot provides an EFI environment to
 the kernel (i.e. replaces UEFI completely but provides the same EFI run-time
-services) is not currently supported on x86.
+services) is supported too. For example, we can even use 'bootefi' command
+to load a 'u-boot-payload.efi', see below test logs on QEMU.
+
+  => load ide 0 3000000 u-boot-payload.efi
+  489787 bytes read in 138 ms (3.4 MiB/s)
+  => bootefi 3000000
+  Scanning disk ide.blk#0...
+  Found 2 disks
+  WARNING: booting without device tree
+  ## Starting EFI application at 03000000 ...
+  U-Boot EFI Payload
+
+
+  U-Boot 2018.07-rc2 (Jun 23 2018 - 17:12:58 +0800)
+
+  CPU: x86_64, vendor AMD, device 663h
+  DRAM:  2 GiB
+  MMC:
+  Video: 1024x768x32
+  Model: EFI x86 Payload
+  Net:   e1000: 52:54:00:12:34:56
+
+  Warning: e1000#0 using MAC address from ROM
+  eth0: e1000#0
+  No controllers found
+  Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
 
 See README.u-boot_on_efi and README.uefi for details of EFI support in U-Boot.