efi_loader: Add README section in README.efi

To preserve all cover letter knowledge of the status on UEFI payload
support, let's add some sections to README.efi.

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

v3 -> v4:

  - Add section about config options
  - s/10kb/10KB/
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Alexander Graf 2016-03-04 01:10:09 +01:00 committed by Tom Rini
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
#
=========== Table of Contents ===========
1 U-Boot on EFI
1.1 In God's Name, Why?
1.2 Status
1.3 Build Instructions
1.4 Trying it out
1.5 Inner workings
1.6 EFI Application
1.7 EFI Payload
1.8 Tables
1.9 Interrupts
1.10 32/64-bit
1.11 Future work
1.12 Where is the code?
2 EFI on U-Boot
2.1 In God's Name, Why?
2.2 How do I get it?
2.3 Status
2.4 Future work
U-Boot on EFI
=============
This document provides information about U-Boot running on top of EFI, either
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common/cmd_efi.c
the 'efi' command
--
Ben Stoltz, Simon Glass
Google, Inc
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[1] http://www.qemu.org
[2] http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/
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EFI on U-Boot
=============
In addition to support for running U-Boot as a UEFI application, U-Boot itself
can also expose the UEFI interfaces and thus allow UEFI payloads to run under
it.
In God's Name, Why?
-------------------
With this support in place, you can run any UEFI payload (such as the Linux
kernel, grub2 or gummiboot) on U-Boot. This dramatically simplifies boot loader
configuration, as U-Boot based systems now look and feel (almost) the same way
as TianoCore based systems.
How do I get it?
----------------
EFI support for 32bit ARM and AArch64 is already included in U-Boot. All you
need to do is enable
CONFIG_CMD_BOOTEFI=y
CONFIG_EFI_LOADER=y
in your .config file and you will automatically get a bootefi command to run
an efi application as well as snippet in the default distro boot script that
scans for removable media efi binaries as fallback.
Status
------
I am successfully able to run grub2 and Linux EFI binaries with this code on
ARMv7 as well as AArch64 systems.
When enabled, the resulting U-Boot binary only grows by ~10KB, so it's very
light weight.
All storage devices are directly accessible from the uEFI payload
Removable media booting (search for /efi/boot/boota{a64,arm}.efi) is supported.
Simple use cases like "Plug this SD card into my ARM device and it just
boots into grub which boots into Linux", work very well.
Future work
-----------
Of course, there are still a few things one could do on top:
- Improve disk media detection (don't scan, use what information we
have)
- Add EFI variable support using NVRAM
- Add GFX support
- Make EFI Shell work
- Network device support
- Support for payload exit
- Payload Watchdog support