barebox on an intel efi system

Giorgio Dal Molin iw3gtf at arcor.de
Wed Sep 27 01:28:45 PDT 2017


Hi Oleksij,

this was the solution to my problems,

thank you very much.

giorgio

> Oleksij Rempel hat am 27. September 2017 um 09:11 geschrieben:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you probably need this fix:
> https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?h=next&id=fc7c42ff3c889ccc993061ee183b0cf1621e3f1c
> 
> It is in barebox/next.
> 
> Am 27.09.2017 um 08:51 schrieb Giorgio Dal Molin:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently working with an embedded system based on a "normal"
> > intel (atom) PC with an AMI Bios on it supporting EFI.
> > 
> > I've built a barebox for it based on the 'arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig'
> > and it basically runs on the target: I get a prompt on the screen, the
> > keyboard works and I can issue commands and boot a kernel.
> > 
> > My problem is now that the '/boot' and '/efi' dirs do not automatically
> > appear as described in http://www.barebox.org/doc/latest/boards/efi.html
> > 
> > After a bit of grepping and browsing in the barebox sources I've found
> > the file:
> > 
> >  fs/efi.c
> > 
> > At the end of it there is the 'efi_fs_driver' and its probe function;
> > I think the driver is registered with the core but the probe function
> > is never called on my system.
> > 
> > Could this be OK on an EFI system or is it an indication that something
> > is not properly configured ?
> > 
> > giorgio
> > 
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> -- 
> Regards,
> Oleksij
> 
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