This series provides optional support for EFI boot for live images, both hddimg and ISO, on ia32 platforms. It creates a new grub-efi-native recipe to create the boot image. bootimg.bbclass has been refactored and syslinux support has been made optional. The new live images can be built as PCBIOS-legacy (the original type), EFI, or both. The MACHINE_FEATURES values "pcbios" and "efi" dictate this behavior, if neither are specified, it defaults to PCBIOS-legacy only to maintain current behavior.
It is careful not to add unecessary dependencies to the build by dynamically including only the necessary bootloader classes (syslinux and/or grub-efi). EFI hddimg's do not install into /EFI/BOOT as is proper due to a bug in the dosfstools: http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1783. For now, the files are installe in the root directory and users will need to update their firmware or use a startup.nsh script for pure EFI booting. Testing performed includes verification of the images built for the n450 BSP with all combinations of the MACHINE_FEATURES. The syslinux and grub-efi boot methods were validated on the n450 hardware as well. EFI-only ISO images are untested, help here would be appreciated. While the "install" target is preserved for the EFI boot, it will perform the same install as it does currently - namely a GRUB legacy boot mechanism. Support for EFI boot post install will follow in another patch series. Thanks to Koen Kooi, Chris Larson, Richard Purdie, and Josef Ahmad for their contributions of expertise, code, and testing. NOTE: This is an RFC and not intended for inclusion. I would appreciate at least one round of reviews from the OE experts and some additional testing before this is pulled. The following changes since commit c5bdef56175c0b6863e3d588a5a2c23cbea7b568: documentation/adt-manual/adt-prepare.xml: Fixed broken link (2011-11-08 21:49:45 +0000) are available in the git repository at: git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib dvhart/efi http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=dvhart/efi Darren Hart (5): grub-efi-native: New recipe to build GRUB EFI images bootimg: Refactor build_hddimg and build_iso routines bootimg: Pull syslinux specific bits into syslinux.bbclass bootimg: Add grub-efi support bootimg: Allow for EFI-only boot images meta/classes/bootimg.bbclass | 148 +++++++++++++------------ meta/classes/dummy.bbclass | 2 + meta/classes/grub-efi.bbclass | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++ meta/classes/syslinux.bbclass | 84 +++++++++++--- meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub-efi-native_1.99.bb | 74 ++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 362 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) create mode 100644 meta/classes/dummy.bbclass create mode 100644 meta/classes/grub-efi.bbclass create mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub-efi-native_1.99.bb -- 1.7.6.4 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core