On 09/07/2018 18:54, Dong Wei wrote:
Grant,
In section 4.2, the /Firmware directory is mentioned. What are the reasons why
this new hierarchy of directories are created? Can we not use the existing /EFI
hierarchy as shown at http://www.uefi.org/registry? I may have missed the
rational when discussed.
Because it doesn't contain EFI executables, or have anything to do with
the UEFI spec at all. A different hierarchy was selected because it
insulates firmware implementation details from the hierarchy used by an
OS to install EFI binaries.
If we do need to create a new /Firmware hierarchy, we need to register that
with the UEFI Forum as the UEFI Forum owns the ESP name space to avoid
conflicts. EBBR cannot single-handedly create new hierarchy.
I'm okay with that. Care to propose suitable language for the EFI spec?
Also, each SoC vendor would need to make request to the UEFI Forum to get their
vendor subdirectories under /Firmware as well.
Is that true? I lifted the description of the /FIRMWARE directory
straight from UEFI section 13.3.1.3:
"Applications that are loaded by other applications or drivers are
not required to be stored in any specific location in the EFI system
partition. The choice of the subdirectory name is up to the vendor,
but all vendors must pick names that do not collide with any other
vendor’s subdirectory name. This applies to system manufacturers,
operating system vendors, BIOS vendors, and third party tool
vendors, or any other vendor that wishes to install files on an EFI
system partition."
Seems to me that the vendors have freedom to chose a name.
Cheers,
g.
- DW
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Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 12:13 PM
To: boot-architecture@lists.linaro.org; arm.ebbr-discuss
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Subject: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] EBBR v0.6-pre1 Released
I've tagged the prerelease in preparation for a wider v0.6 RFC release next
week. Please review and comment:
https://github.com/glikely/ebbr/releases/tag/v0.6-pre1
(I've linked to the copy on my personal ebbr fork because I'm having trouble
getting Travis-ci to deploy to the official repo. It will take a bit of effort
to work out what is wrong)
g.
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