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  EFI on U-Boot

  =============

  This document provides information about the implementation of the UEFI API [1]
  in U-Boot.

  =========== Table of Contents ===========

  Motivation
  How do I get it?

  Status

  Future work

  Motivation
  ----------

  With this API 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.

  
  Running HelloWord.efi
  ---------------------
  
  You can run a simple 'hello world' EFI program in U-Boot.
  Enable the option CONFIG_CMD_BOOTEFI_HELLO.
  
  Then you can boot into U-Boot and type:
  
     > bootefi hello
  
  The 'hello world EFI' program will then run, print a message and exit.

  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

  
  [1] http://uefi.org/