[OE-core] [v3 PATCH 0/9] Improved EFI boot support

[Darren Hart]

On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 08:32 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
> V3
> - Add comment about isolinux.bin required in EFI only case
> - Fix typo of PCIBIOS -> PCBIOS
> - Change COMPRESSISO ?= "" -> COMPRESSISO ?= "0" for the default
> - Add comment to EFI/ISO syslinux.bbclass to clarify workaround
>   with EFI only case and hybrid boot
> - Add patch to fix syslinux serial and menu problems
> - Add patch to fix boot-directdisk.bbclass
> * Two new patches are 7 & 8, the zisofs patch moved from 7 -> 9
> 

It looks good to me, but I would like to see Saul and Martin review the
direct disk modifications.

Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>

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Darren

> 
> V2
> - Added reference to YOCTO #1913 for per Darren
> - Remove PR number from cdrtools uprev
> - Added Saul's change to cdrtools to get rid of STAGE_TEMP
> - made the builtin grub cfg file copied from a SRC_URI
> - upreved syslinux to 6.01
> - Use the new isohybrid command from syslinux which can now
>   generate EFI enabled ISO's which can boot directly when
>   dd'ed to a USB or HDD device.
> - Dropped any references to efi or pcbios in the qemu* configs
> - Added the zisofs patch to the end of the series instead
>   of depending on it, in case it is dropped later.
> - git -format-patch -M20% is your friend for seeing the
>   delta on recipe upgrades :-)
> 
> YAY, with the new version of syslinux it is now possible to
> build a single live ISO image which can boot in legacy mode
> or EFI on optical media or USB devices.
> 
> We still have to create 2 ISO's one for 32bit EFI systems and one for
> 64bit EFI systems but this is also true of all other Linux
> distributions today as well.
> 
> Jason.
> 
> ---
> 
> The goal of this patch set is to put the EFI ISO boot method on par
> with the ISO PCBIOS boot method.  This also allows for the creation of
> a single ISO image which can boot in "legacy boot" mode or EFI boot
> mode.
> 
> In order to make this possible the cdrtools needed an update to the
> very latest and this brings in an license change.  Given that change
> it was not entirely clear to me if we needed to leave the older
> package around.  I opted to remove the older package recipe since
> there was no clean way to fail in the case you wanted to build EFI
> boot media.
> 
> The bbnote that was previously in the bootimg.bbclass about EFI only
> media being untested was a bit of an understatement, as the images
> would not even build without errors due to the call to isohybrid.  I
> removed any such warnings because that path has been fully vetted now.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason.
> 
> 
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel