[LEDE-DEV] RFC: WIP: Adding support to automate generating UEFI bootable x86_64 and x86 images

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2017-02-22 07:55, Alive 4ever wrote:
> I am currently working on adding support for LEDE build system to
> generate UEFI bootable images.
> 
> What I've done in this WIP:
>  [*] Adding grub2-efi-amd64 and grub2-efi-ia32 packages.
>  [*] Adding new targets under x86: 64-efi and efi, which can be selected
>      via build's menuconfig.
>  [*] Modifying config/Config-images.in to select correct grub-efi
>      package for x86_64_efi and x86_efi targets.
>  [*] Modifying target/linux/x86/images/Makefile to create UEFI bootable
>      LEDE images.
> 
> What's working:
>  [*] UEFI bootable ext4 image
> 
> What doesn't work:
>  [ ] UEFI bootable squashfs image
>  [ ] GPT disk image (ptgen currently doesn't support gpt partitions)
> 
> Not yet tested
>  [ ] RAMDISK image
>  [ ] ISO image
> 
> Bugs I encountered:
>  - Flickering screen during GRUB menu selection display (under EDK II
>    firmware v 2.60)
> 
> My WIP tree can be found at
> https://github.com/alive4ever/source/tree/x86_64-efi-automation
> 
> Please check the tree and give me review so that it's eligible for
> inclusion on LEDE upstream.
Please keep your tree rebased on top of latest LEDE upstream and fold
your fixup commits into the ones they're fixing.
Afterwards, I will review your changes.

Thanks,

- Felix