Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] OvmfPkg: OVMF supports USB mouses

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 13:56, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 08:53:10AM +0100, Phillip Tennen wrote:
> > Hi, thank you for taking a look at the patch!
> >
> > This patch can be verified to be working with this app (which was the
> > motivation for submitting this):
> > https://github.com/codyd51/uefirc/releases/tag/1.0.1.
>
> Quoting https://github.com/codyd51/uefirc:
>
>     Q: Should I use this?
>     A: This should not exist.
>
> Well.  This certainly one of the more interesting ways to have some fun
> and improve your rust coding skills.  But a justification to include a
> mouse driver by default which is not used by anything else?  IMHO it
> isn't.
>

Agreed.

> Note that you can load drivers from efi shell with the 'load' command,
> so there is no need to have a ovmf firmware image with the mouse drivers
> included.  You can boot into efi shell and use a startup.nsh script to
> automatically load drivers needed and start the irc app.
>

startup.nsh is ignored unless you boot into the EFI shell.

UEFI supports 'driver' entries in addition to Boot#### entries, which
can be programmed (using efibootmgr under Linux, for instance) to
point to a UEFI driver on the ESP that needs to be loaded at boot,
before any boot options are evaluated.


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