Initial EFI Support

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:53:30PM +0800, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> 
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The following adds initial support for running barebox as an EFI
> > payload on X86 PCs.
> > 
> > Several things are implemented already to make it useful and
> > to look around in an EFI system:
> > 
> > - Simple Network Protocol for networking
> > - Start applications for installing drivers and starting Linux
> > - Access EFI provided filesystems
> > - Block device access
> > 
> > The EFI Port still has some rough edges. The screen output is limited
> > to 80x25 and the keyboard driver doesn't recognize ctrl-C. I couldn't
> > get find a proper UEFI serial driver yet, so the serial port is accessed
> > via inb/outb on ioport 0x3f8 and not via UEFI.
> > 
> > For those interested in EFI and X86 hardware this port still offers
> > some interesting insights in EFI.
> > 
> > There's also even Documentation available, see Patch 16/21.
> > 
> > Sascha
> 
> can you put on a git somewhere

Just did that:

git://git.pengutronix.de/git efi

Sascha

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