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2016-03-15efi_loader: Add runtime servicesAlexander Graf
After booting has finished, EFI allows firmware to still interact with the OS using the "runtime services". These callbacks live in a separate address space, since they are available long after U-Boot has been overwritten by the OS. This patch adds enough framework for arbitrary code inside of U-Boot to become a runtime service with the right section attributes set. For now, we don't make use of it yet though. We could maybe in the future map U-boot environment variables to EFI variables here. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-03-15efi_loader: Add console interfaceAlexander Graf
One of the basic EFI interfaces is the console interface. Using it an EFI application can interface with the user. This patch implements an EFI console interface using getc() and putc(). Today, we only implement text based consoles. We also convert the EFI Unicode characters to UTF-8 on the fly, hoping that everyone managed to jump on the train by now. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-03-15efi_loader: Add boot time servicesAlexander Graf
When an EFI application runs, it has access to a few descriptor and callback tables to instruct the EFI compliant firmware to do things for it. The bulk of those interfaces are "boot time services". They handle all object management, and memory allocation. This patch adds support for the boot time services and also exposes a system table, which is the point of entry descriptor table for EFI payloads. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-03-15efi_loader: Add PE image loaderAlexander Graf
EFI uses the PE binary format for its application images. Add support to EFI PE binaries as well as all necessary bits for the "EFI image loader" interfaces. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>