Hi Andrew,
I have a use case where I install Load File protocol on a handle and want to expose that as a boot option through platform boot manager driver as I need it to have a custom description and custom option data along with it. This is the reason
I submitted this patch so that someone can keep using edk2 uefi boot manager library and not expose a boot option if desired using this new protocol. In my use case, I use the load file protocol to be able to load kernel packaged in a proprietary manner for
my platform and want to use custom optional data to provide kernel command line and custom description to identify the boot option.
Please suggest the best way for this and I would make necessary changes at my end.
Thanks
Ashish
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Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] Support skipping automatic BM enumeration
Ashish,
Just to be clear on your definition of enumerate. In this case it means the Boot Manager lib that is just one of may implementations a platform could use to manage its boot options. 3rd party code, or an OS boot loader could try to boot
your handle since by definition of the UEFI spec it is a bootable device.
The simple answer is if you don't want your device to boot in normal cases, then don't add a Load File Protocol to your handle? What problem are you trying to solve?
gBS->LoadImage () supports an optional Source Buffer so you can just add a custom protocol and call your protocol to get a memory buffer and then just pass that buffer into gBS->LoadImage ()?
Andrew Fish
On my platform, I am installing Load File protocol on a handle which I do not want to be auto enumerated by boot manager. In order to achieve this, I submitted this match on edk2 side and have installed gEdkiiSkipBmAutoEnumerateProtocolGuid
on the same handle to achieve this on platform side. If there is a different way to achieve what I am trying to do, please let me know and I would be happy to adopt that.
Hi Ray,
I did not see any example with which one can tell BDS not to enumerate a boot option. Can you please point me to an example where a protocol (Block IO, Simple FS or Load File) does not get enumerated as a boot option?
Are you asking for example code, or reasons that you would not want to enumerate something as bootable?
Most likely if you want to have a platform policy to add gEdkiiSkipBmAutoEnumerateProtocolGuid you are going to need an EFI Driver Model driver to add it to the handle based on some platform policy. This is the only way you can filter based
on things getting connected at different times during boot.
Thanks
Ashish
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Subject: RE: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] Support skipping automatic BM enumeration
+ Mike
With the UEFI driver model, if a device is not needed by booting, it can skip the connecting.
Then I do not see a need of the new protocol.
Thanks,
Ray
Right now, any and every handle with a BlockIO or SimpleFileSystem
or LoadFile protocol installed on the system is used to enumerate BM
automatically. There may be cases where on a platform, some of these
are not desirable to be enumerated automatically. This patch adds
support for skipping this automatic enumeration if on the same
handle, a new protocol defined as EdkiiSkipBmAutoEnumerate is found
to be
Ashish Singhal (1):
MdeModulePkg/UefiBootManagerLib: Support skipping BM enumeration
.../Include/Protocol/SkipBmAutoEnumerate.h | 25 ++++++++++++++
MdeModulePkg/Library/UefiBootManagerLib/BmBoot.c | 40
.../Library/UefiBootManagerLib/InternalBm.h | 1 +
.../UefiBootManagerLib/UefiBootManagerLib.inf | 1 +
MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec | 3 ++
5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode
100644 MdeModulePkg/Include/Protocol/SkipBmAutoEnumerate.h
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