The configuration for EFI is enhanced to start U-Boot at VirtualBox (x86_64)
with all features like booting with help of boot scripts and extended linux.
This documentation describes how to use U-Boot at VirtualBox to boot
Linux systems with a some simple example.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mittelstaedt <thomas.mittelstaedt@de.bosch.com>
At present this is disabled, but it should work so long as the kernel does
not need EFI services. Enable it and add a note about remaining work.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When starting the app, locate all block devices and make them available
to U-Boot. This allows listing partitions and accessing files in
filesystems.
EFI also has the concept of 'disks', meaning boot media. For now, this
is not obviously useful in U-Boot, but add code to at least locate these.
This can be expanded later as needed.
We cannot use printf() in the early stub or app since it is not compiled
in
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
The current EFI video driver only works when running in the stub. In that
case the stub calls boot services (before jumping to U-Boot proper) and
copies the graphics info over to the efi table. This is necessary because
the stub exits boot services before jumping to U-Boot.
The app maintains access to boot services throughout its life, so does not
need to do this. Update the driver to support calling boot services
directly.
Enable video output for the app. Note that this uses the
EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_PROTOCOL protocol, even though it mentions vesa.
A sample qemu command-line for this case is:
qemu-system-x86_64 -bios /usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-ia32/OVMF-pure-efi.fd
-drive id=disk,file=try.img,if=none,format=raw -nic none
-device ahci,id=ahci -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bus=ahci.0
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Most modern platforms use 64-bit EFI so it is useful to have a U-Boot app
that runs under that. Add a (non-functional) build for this.
Note that --whole-archive causes the gcc 9.2 linker to crash, so disable
this for now. Once this is resolved, things should work.
For now, avoid mentioning the documentation for the 64-bit app, since it
does not work.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
It is quite complicated to run U-Boot on QEMU since we have four
different builds and they must use different versions of qemu and the
UEFI binaries.
Add a script to help. It requires U-Boot itself to be built. Once that
is done you can use this script to build an image for use with qemu and
optionally run it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The existing intructions in the U-Boot on EFI doc do not work with
the latest QEMU. Update the doc with the correct instructions, as
well as using the new OVMF URL link.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Much of the content here is useful only for development. Move it under
that section.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
2021-03-26 17:03:10 +13:00
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