Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] firmware: added a firmware information passing method FFI

From: 运辉崔
Date: Wed Apr 26 2023 - 23:38:17 EST


Hi Mark,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 6:07 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ard's point is that the device tree doesn't have all the same information (e.g.
> nothing in DT describes the memory type attributes), and so this isn't
> sufficient.

The device tree only needs to complete the parse of the memory type attributes,
it should not be very complicated.

>
> We'd have to create entirely new ways to pass that information, which is not
> very desirable.
>

>
> Can you extend coreboot to provide EFI services, or to chain-load an EFI
> payload?

Currently, coreboot does not support UEFI, and it may not support it
in the future.
Hi rminnich, what do you think?

Thanks,
Yunhui