Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:04:38 +0200 | From | Maarten Lankhorst <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support |
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Hey Matt,
On 09/15/2011 06:52 AM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:07:58AM -0500, Matt Fleming wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:33 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: >>> This version seems to boot for me. >> Yay! Thanks for testing. >> >>> Is it useful to add 32-bits support though? >>> It seems that only some older versions of OSX use it. I could see if I can >>> revive my mac mini, iirc it has 32-bits efi, or at least used to have. >> 32-bit UEFI platforms do exist, so I think it's worth supporting them. >> >>> Do I need to pass anything to add it to efibootmgr? >>> >>> I tried something like this: >>> echo "args" | efibootmgr -c -l '\vmlinuz.efi' -L 'Native EFI linux boot' -@ - -u -d /dev/sdb >>> >>> And it boots vmlinuz.efi, but the arguments I passed do not appear to >>> have any effect. >> No idea, I've never used efibootmgr. Let's add Matt Domsch to the >> discussion (now Cc'd). > Maarten, do you not see your 'args' in /proc/cmdline after booting the > entry? From reading this thread, that's what you should see. > > Can you provide an 'efibootmgr -v' and hexdump -C > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/Boot* to see the args are appended as expected > in the boot variable in nvram? > > Adding Jordan Hargrave, who is maintainer for efibootmgr now. Thanks, that helped. It looks like efibootmgr stores the arguments without converting it to UCS-2.
Patch below is a rough check for ascii, in which case it passes it unmodified.
After this 'args' is passed succesfully. :)
Should probably be folded in 10/10.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c index 6c34828..b24affb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c @@ -619,12 +619,12 @@ static efi_status_t make_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params, unsigned long cmdline; u8 nr_entries; u16 *s2; - u8 *s1; + u8 *s1, *s2_8; int i; hdr->type_of_loader = 0x21; - status = low_alloc(options_size, 1, &cmdline); + status = low_alloc(options_size+1, 1, &cmdline); if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) goto fail; @@ -633,6 +633,14 @@ static efi_status_t make_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params, /* Convert unicode cmdline to ascii */ s1 = (u8 *)(unsigned long)hdr->cmd_line_ptr; s2 = (u16 *)options; + s2_8 = (u8*)options; + /* Assume the first byte is < 0x128 */ + if (options_size > 1 && s2_8[1] && s2_8[1] < 0x80 && s2_8[0] < 0x80) { + s2 = NULL; + memcpy(s1, s2_8, options_size); + s1[options_size] = 0; + hdr->cmdline_size = options_size; + } if (s2 && options_size) { /* Skip first word, that's the kernel name */
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