Hi Leif, On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:43:21PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote: > We currently have a few sets of patches floating around, for UEFI > runtime services, UEFI stub and GRUB support for Linux/UEFI on > arm/arm64. > > The last version of Documentation/arm/uefi.txt I sent out raised a few > questions with regards to the boot protocol between UEFI and Linux, and > there is also upcoming support for ACPI which could use a few > clarifications in this area. > > So, rather than sending out complete sets of patches for all these until > consensus is reached, below is my proposed suggestion for a > Documentation/arm/uefi.txt, to be shared for arm and arm64. If noone has > strong objections to this, we can quickly send updated (and hopefully > final-ish) versions of these sets. In the absence of code, I'll play English teacher then :) > UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface is a specification Interface, is > governing the behaviours of compatible firmware interfaces. > It is maintained by the UEFI Forum - http://www.uefi.org/. > Support for the AArch32 (arm) architecture was added in version 2.3 of > the specification, and support for AAaarch64 (arm64) was added in > version 2.4. AArch64 > UEFI is an evolution of its predecessor 'EFI', so the terms EFI and > EFI are used somewhat interchangeably in this document and associated UEFI > source code. As a rule, anything new uses 'UEFI', whereas 'EFI' refers > to legacy code or specifications. > > UEFI support in Linux > ===================== > Booting on a platform with firmware compliant with the UEFI > specification makes it possible for the kernel to support additional > features: > - UEFI Runtime Services > - Retrieving various configuration information through the standardised > interface of UEFI configuration tables. (ACPI, SMBIOS, ...) > > For actually enabling [U]EFI support, enable: > - CONFIG_EFI=y > - CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y or m > > UEFI stub > ========= > The "stub" is a feature that turns the Image/zImage/bzImage into a valid We don't support bzImage for arm or arm64. > UEFI PE/COFF executable, including a loader application that makes it > possible to load the kernel directly from the UEFI shell, boot menu, or > one of the lightweight bootloaders like Gummiboot or rEFInd. > The kernel image built with stub support remains a valid kernel image > for booting in the legacy fashion. By legacy, you mean non-UEFI rather than EFI? I consider UEFI as a choice rather than the future ;p > UEFI kernel support on ARM > ========================== Wait, isn't this all under Documentation/arm/? You could probably combine some of these sections together, since the scope is really tied to ARM here. > The implementation depends on receiving information about the UEFI > environment in a Flattened Device Tree (FDT) - so is only available with > CONFIG_OF. You could mention this in your earlier list of dependencies. > UEFI support also depends on early_memremap(). Why is that worthy of note? Can a user even turn that off? > UEFI kernel support on the ARM architectures (arm and arm64) is only > available when boot is performed through the stub. > > When booting in UEFI mode, the kernel ignores any memory nodes in the > DT, and instead reads the UEFI memory map. To prevent confusion, the > stub deletes any memory nodes from a provided DT. > > The stub populates the FDT /chosen node with, and the kernel scans for > the following parameters: Sentence doesn't read very well. Maybe stick some brackets around (and the kernel scans for)? > ______________________________________________________________________________ > Name | Size | Description > ================================================================================ > linux,uefi-system-table | 64-bit | Physical address of the UEFI System Table. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > linux,uefi-mmap | 64-bit | Physical address of the UEFI memory map, > | | populated by the UEFI GetMemoryMap() call. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > linux,uefi-mmap-size | 32-bit | Size in bytes of the UEFI memory map > | | pointed to in previous entry. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > linux,uefi-mmap-desc-size | 32-bit | Size in bytes of each entry in the UEFI > | | memory map. Do we actually need to define these sizes here, or can they be dealt with using the usual #address-cells property? Also, I think you should describe the binding in a separate document somewhere under Documentation/devicetree, then cross-reference it from here. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > linux,uefi-stub-kern-ver | string | Copy of linux_banner from build. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you sure you want to refer to kernel symbols here? If somebody renames that variable, they're not going to fix this file. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
