Hi Simon,

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 9:34 PM Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> At present U-Boot can be built as an EFI app, but it is really just for
> testing, with very few features. Instead, the payload build is used for
> booting on top of UEFI, where U-Boot takes over the machine immediately
> and supplies its own drivers.
>
> But the app could be made more useful.
>
> This series provides access to EFI block devices and the video console
> within U-Boot. It also restructures the app to make it possible to boot
> a kernel, although further work is needed to implement this.
>
> This can be thought of as making U-Boot perform a little like 'grub', in
> that it runs purely based on UEFI-provided services.
>
> Of course a lot more work is required, but this is a start.

Thanks for working on this!

>
> Note: It would be very useful to include qemu tests of the app and stub
> in CI.
>
> This is available at u-boot-dm/efi-working
>

Do you have any idea of why this series did not land on patchwork?

Regards,
Bin

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