From 73149164f4cd07051018f423cd8a47165eb8156b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bin Meng Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:38:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86: doc: Update EFI loader support CONFIG_EFI_LOADER is fully supported on x86 now. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf --- doc/README.x86 | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86 index 9f657df6bf..9162ea17d8 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. -- 2.25.1