Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#14436 closed task
UEFI: Make architecture generic — at Version 1
| Reported by: | kallisti5 | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1/beta3 |
| Component: | System/Boot Loader/EFI | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | uefi arm u-boot | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description (last modified by )
UEFI needs to be reworked to build for non-x86 platforms. Recent u-boot's support .efi binary booting and would let us leverage u-boot's framebuffer in our haiku_loader. (reducing the need for hacked in early SOC hardware drivers for framebuffers and other devices haiku_loader needs). This would also let us consolidate boot loader target platforms... and help us have *real* drivers attached to and FDT bus in the kernel. (we would only need early uart drivers for debugging)
'bootefi' is the u-boot command to load an efi binary.
BOOTARM.EFI is the default boot choice for ARM platforms (kind of like BOOTX64.EFI is on x86_64)
Jessicah has some EFI rework in-flight (making the compiled x86 loader build both BIOS and UEFI loaders) that is a blocker to beginning this.
