Hi,

I integrated this patch into another tree without the packages feed. Then I get errors about missing dependencies:

WARNING: Makefile 'package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile' has a build dependency on 'python-pyelftools/host', which does not exist WARNING: Makefile 'package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile' has a build dependency on 'python-jinja2/host', which does not exist

and later python3 is missing:

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/package/boot/systemd-boot'
systemd-boot fused dependencies: libc, libblkid1
rm -f /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/.configured_* rm -f /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/stamp/.systemd-boot_installed /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/sed -e "s|@CC@|'/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/gcc',|" -e "s|@CXX@|'/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/g++',|" -e "s|@PKGCONFIG@|/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config|" -e "s|@CMAKE@|/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/cmake|" -e "s|@PYTHON@|/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/bin/python3|" -e "s|@CFLAGS@|'-O2', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/host/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/host/include',|" -e "s|@CXXFLAGS@|'-O2', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/host/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/host/include',|" -e "s|@LDFLAGS@|'-L/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/lib', '-L/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/lib', '-L/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/host/lib',|" -e "s|@PREFIX@||" < /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/lib/meson/openwrt-native.txt.in > /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/openwrt-native.txt /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/sed -e "s|@CC@|'x86_64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc',|" -e "s|@CXX@|'x86_64-openwrt-linux-musl-g++',|" -e "s|@LD@|'bfd',|" -e "s|@AR@|x86_64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc-ar|" -e "s|@STRIP@|x86_64-openwrt-linux-musl-strip|" -e "s|@NM@|x86_64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc-nm|" -e "s|@PKGCONFIG@|/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config|" -e "s|@CMAKE@|/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/cmake|" -e "s|@PYTHON@|/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/bin/python3|" -e "s|@CFLAGS@|'-Os', '-pipe', '-fno-caller-saves', '-fno-plt', '-fhonour-copts', '-fmacro-prefix-map=/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259=systemd-boot-259', '-Wformat', '-Werror=format-security', '-fstack-protector', '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1', '-Wl,-z,now', '-Wl,-z,relro', '-Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/usr/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/include/fortify',|" -e "s|@CXXFLAGS@|'-Os', '-pipe', '-fno-caller-saves', '-fno-plt', '-fhonour-copts', '-fmacro-prefix-map=/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259=systemd-boot-259', '-Wformat', '-Werror=format-security', '-fstack-protector', '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1', '-Wl,-z,now', '-Wl,-z,relro', '-Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/usr/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/include', '-I/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/include/fortify',|" -e "s|@LDFLAGS@|'-L/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/usr/lib', '-L/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-14.3.0_musl/lib', '-fuse-ld=bfd', '-znow', '-zrelro', '-zpack-relative-relocs',|" -e "s|@ARCH@|"x86_64"|" -e "s|@CPU@|"generic"|" -e "s|@ENDIAN@|little|" < /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/lib/meson/openwrt-cross.txt.in > /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/openwrt-cross.txt /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/bin/python3 /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/host/bin/meson.py  setup --buildtype plain --native-file /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/openwrt-native.txt --cross-file /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/openwrt-cross.txt -Ddefault_library=both -Dmode=release -Dlibc=musl -Dbootloader=enabled --auto-features=disabled /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/openwrt-build /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/openwrt-build/.. bash: line 1: /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/hostpkg/bin/python3: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [Makefile:62: /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/systemd-boot-259/.configured_68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/package/boot/systemd-boot'
time: package/boot/systemd-boot/compile#0.10#0.11#0.20
    ERROR: package/boot/systemd-boot failed to build.
make[2]: *** [package/Makefile:187: package/boot/systemd-boot/compile] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2'
make[1]: *** [package/Makefile:181: /home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/staging_dir/target-x86_64_musl/stamp/.package_compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2'
make: *** [/home/stefan/devel/openwrt2/include/toplevel.mk:233: world] Fehler 2

No easy fix :-) I think it will be difficult to integrate all the dependencies into openwrt in order to compile the entire systemd with it...

Have you thought about integrating the boot cmdline into the kernel (CONFIG_CMDLINE) and just put the kernel to /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi ? Or the new UKI-Format?

Best regards,
Stefan



Am 30.12.25 um 12:54 schrieb Jonas Lochmann:
grub2 has many features, including different implementations for loading
the linux kernel. At one machine, the "linux" command cannot start
OpenWrt while the "chainloader" command for the same kernel file works.

Both commands use the same UEFI API, but the surrounding steps are
slightly different. An UEFI native bootloader seems to be similar to
"chainloader" in grub while avoiding a ton of extra features. One of
those bootloaders is systemd-boot, formerly known as gummiboot.
While it contains the name "systemd" and is part of the systemd
codebase, the resulting efi executable can be used independent of
systemd. systemd contains bootctl for managing a systemd-boot
installation, but systemd-boot uses simple text configuration files
so that this is not needed at all.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Lochmann <[email protected]>
---
  config/Config-images.in                       | 18 ++++--
  package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile            | 55 +++++++++++++++++++
  .../x86/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh    |  1 +
  target/linux/x86/image/Makefile               | 28 ++++++++++
  target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-entry.cfg  |  4 ++
  .../linux/x86/image/systemdboot-loader.conf   |  1 +
  6 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile
  create mode 100644 target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-entry.cfg
  create mode 100644 target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-loader.conf

diff --git a/config/Config-images.in b/config/Config-images.in
index fcc5fa52cb..ff93990834 100644
--- a/config/Config-images.in
+++ b/config/Config-images.in
@@ -229,6 +229,12 @@ menu "Target Images"
                        prompt "journal size" if TARGET_ROOTFS_UBIFS
                        default ""
+ config SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES
+               bool "Build systemd-boot images (EFI x86_64 targets only)"
+               depends on TARGET_x86_64
+               depends on TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT4FS || TARGET_ROOTFS_JFFS2 || 
TARGET_ROOTFS_SQUASHFS || TARGET_ROOTFS_EROFS
+               select PACKAGE_systemd-boot
+
        config GRUB_IMAGES
                bool "Build GRUB images (Linux x86 or x86_64 host only)"
                depends on TARGET_x86
@@ -251,23 +257,23 @@ menu "Target Images"
config GRUB_CONSOLE
                bool "Use Console Terminal (in addition to Serial)"
-               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES
+               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES || SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES
                default y
config GRUB_BAUDRATE
                int "Serial port baud rate"
-               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES
+               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES || SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES
                default 38400 if TARGET_x86_generic
                default 115200
config GRUB_FLOWCONTROL
                bool "Use RTE/CTS on serial console"
-               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES
+               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES || SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES
                depends on TARGET_SERIAL != ""
config GRUB_BOOTOPTS
                string "Extra kernel boot options"
-               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES
+               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES || SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES
                help
                  If you don't know, just leave it blank.
@@ -279,8 +285,8 @@ menu "Target Images"
                  If you don't know, 5 seconds is a reasonable default.
config GRUB_TITLE
-               string "Title for the menu entry in GRUB"
-               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES
+               string "Title for the menu entry in GRUB and systemd-boot"
+               depends on GRUB_IMAGES || GRUB_EFI_IMAGES || SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES
                default "OpenWrt"
                help
                  This is the title of the GRUB menu entry.
diff --git a/package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile 
b/package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..425f53561d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/boot/systemd-boot/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=systemd-boot
+PKG_VERSION:=259
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git
+PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=1671487dc511d60d3c50070e8f5c6dec228a1d97cdedd7f5508a966bb06ba614
+PKG_SOURCE_DATE:=2025-12-17
+PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=9ca433482f2281d71718718705ca8cd3bf562ad6
+PKG_CPE_ID:=cpe:/a:systemd_project:systemd:259:-
+
+PKG_LICENSE:=LGPL-2.1-or-later
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=LICENSES/README.md
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=python-pyelftools/host python-jinja2/host gperf/host
+PKG_INSTALL:=1
+
+MESON_USE_STAGING_PYTHON:=1
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/meson.mk
+
+define Package/systemd-boot
+  SECTION:=boot
+  CATEGORY:=Boot Loaders
+  TITLE:=Simple UEFI boot manager
+  DEPENDS:=@TARGET_x86_64 +libblkid
+  URL:=https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/main/src/boot
+endef
+
+define Package/systemd-boot/description
+  systemd-boot Simple UEFI boot manager
+
+  systemd-boot executes EFI images. The default entry is selected by a 
configured
+  pattern (glob) or an on-screen menu.
+endef
+
+MESON_ARGS += \
+       -Dmode=release \
+       -Dlibc=musl \
+       -Dbootloader=enabled \
+       --auto-features=disabled
+
+define Package/systemd-boot/install
+       $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/sbin $(1)/usr/lib/systemd-boot
+       $(INSTALL_DATA) 
$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi 
$(1)/usr/lib/systemd-boot/
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,systemd-boot))
diff --git a/target/linux/x86/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh 
b/target/linux/x86/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh
index 5dad7a538a..bca3d0426f 100644
--- a/target/linux/x86/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh
+++ b/target/linux/x86/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ platform_do_upgrade() {
                mount -t $parttype -o rw,noatime "/dev/$partdev" /mnt
                set -- $(dd if="/dev/$diskdev" bs=1 skip=1168 count=16 2>/dev/null | hexdump -v -e '8/1 "%02x "" 
"2/1 "%02x""-"6/1 "%02x"')
                sed -i "s/\(PARTUUID=\)[a-f0-9-]\+/\1$4$3$2$1-$6$5-$8$7-$9/ig" 
/mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
+               sed -i "s/\(PARTUUID=\)[a-f0-9-]\+/\1$4$3$2$1-$6$5-$8$7-$9/ig" 
/mnt/loader/entries/main.conf
                umount /mnt
        fi
  }
diff --git a/target/linux/x86/image/Makefile b/target/linux/x86/image/Makefile
index 29bebeb748..6f11712e87 100644
--- a/target/linux/x86/image/Makefile
+++ b/target/linux/x86/image/Makefile
@@ -52,6 +52,30 @@ define Build/combined
                256
  endef
+define Build/systemd-boot
+       rm -fR [email protected]
+       $(INSTALL_DIR) [email protected]/boot [email protected]/efi/boot [email protected]/loader/entries
+
+       $(CP) $(KDIR)/$(KERNEL_NAME) [email protected]/boot/vmlinuz
+       -$(CP) $(STAGING_DIR_ROOT)/boot/. [email protected]/boot/
+       $(CP) $(STAGING_DIR_ROOT)/usr/lib/systemd-boot/systemd-bootx64.efi 
[email protected]/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
+
+       sed \
+               -e 's#@GPT_ROOTPART@#root=$(GPT_ROOTPART) rootwait#g' \
+               -e 's#@CMDLINE@#$(BOOTOPTS) $(GRUB_CONSOLE_CMDLINE)#g' \
+               -e 's#@TITLE@#$(GRUB_TITLE)#g' \
+               ./systemdboot-entry.cfg > [email protected]/loader/entries/main.conf
+
+       $(CP) ./systemdboot-loader.conf [email protected]/loader/loader.conf
+
+       PADDING="1" SIGNATURE="$(IMG_PART_SIGNATURE)" \
+               GUID="$(IMG_PART_DISKGUID)" $(SCRIPT_DIR)/gen_image_generic.sh \
+               $@ \
+               $(CONFIG_TARGET_KERNEL_PARTSIZE) [email protected] \
+               $(CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_PARTSIZE) $(IMAGE_ROOTFS) \
+               256
+endef
+
  define Build/grub-config
        rm -fR [email protected]
        $(INSTALL_DIR) [email protected]/boot/grub
@@ -114,14 +138,18 @@ define Device/Default
    IMAGE/combined-efi.vdi := grub-config efi | combined efi | grub-install efi 
| qemu-image vdi
    IMAGE/combined-efi.vmdk := grub-config efi | combined efi | grub-install 
efi | qemu-image vmdk
    IMAGE/combined-efi.vhdx := grub-config efi | combined efi | grub-install 
efi | qemu-image vhdx -o subformat=dynamic
+  IMAGE/systemd-boot.img := systemd-boot | append-metadata
+  IMAGE/systemd-boot.img.gz := systemd-boot | gzip | append-metadata
    ifeq ($(CONFIG_TARGET_IMAGES_GZIP),y)
      IMAGES-y := rootfs.img.gz
      IMAGES-$$(CONFIG_GRUB_IMAGES) += combined.img.gz
      IMAGES-$$(CONFIG_GRUB_EFI_IMAGES) += combined-efi.img.gz
+    IMAGES-$$(CONFIG_SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES) += systemd-boot.img.gz
    else
      IMAGES-y := rootfs.img
      IMAGES-$$(CONFIG_GRUB_IMAGES) += combined.img
      IMAGES-$$(CONFIG_GRUB_EFI_IMAGES) += combined-efi.img
+    IMAGES-$$(CONFIG_SYSTEMDBOOT_IMAGES) += systemd-boot.img
    endif
    KERNEL := kernel-bin
    KERNEL_INSTALL := 1
diff --git a/target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-entry.cfg 
b/target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-entry.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf6bc659d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-entry.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+title @TITLE@
+linux /boot/vmlinuz
+options @GPT_ROOTPART@ @CMDLINE@ noinitrd
+architecture x64
diff --git a/target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-loader.conf 
b/target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-loader.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..533d233153
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/x86/image/systemdboot-loader.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+timeout menu-disabled

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