efi: Add support for loading U-Boot through an EFI stub

It is useful to be able to load U-Boot onto a board even if is it already
running EFI. This can allow access to the U-Boot command interface, flexible
booting options and easier development.

The easiest way to do this is to build U-Boot as a binary blob and have an
EFI stub copy it into RAM. Add support for this feature, targeting 32-bit
initially.

Also add a way to detect when U-Boot has been loaded via a stub. This goes
in common.h since it needs to be widely available so that we avoid redoing
initialisation that should be skipped.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Improvements to how the payload is built:
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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Simon Glass
2015-08-04 12:33:52 -06:00
parent 465a67cf52
commit 476476e73b
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@@ -1021,6 +1021,13 @@ int cpu_release(int nr, int argc, char * const argv[]);
offsetof(struct structure, member) == offset, \
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/* Avoid using CONFIG_EFI_STUB directly as we may boot from other loaders */
#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
#define ll_boot_init() false
#else
#define ll_boot_init() true
#endif
/* Pull in stuff for the build system */
#ifdef DO_DEPS_ONLY
# include <environment.h>