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[v2,0/6] Add EFI HTTP boot support

Message ID 20230901102542.609239-1-masahisa.kojima@linaro.org
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Series Add EFI HTTP boot support | expand

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Masahisa Kojima Sept. 1, 2023, 10:25 a.m. UTC 
This series adds the EFI HTTP boot support.
User can add the URI device path with "efidebug boot add" command.
efibootmgr handles the URI device path, download the
specified file using wget, mount the downloaded image with
blkmap, then boot with the default file(e.g. EFI/BOOT/BOOTAA64.EFI).

This version still does not include the test.

To enable EFI HTTP boot, we need to enable the following Kconfig options.
 CONFIG_CMD_DNS
 CONFIG_CMD_WGET
 CONFIG_BLKMAP

On the Socionext Developerbox, enter the following commands then
debian installer is downloaded into "loadaddr" and installer
automatically starts.
 => dhcp
 => setenv serverip 192.168.1.1
 => efidebug boot add -u 3 debian-netinst http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/debian/debian-cd/12.1.0/arm64/iso-cd/debian-12.1.0-arm64-netinst.iso
 => efidebug boot order 3
 => bootefi bootmgr

Note that this debian installer can not proceed the installation
bacause RAM disk of installer image is not recogniged by the kernel.
I'm still investigating this issue, but drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c in linux
will be one of the solution to recognize RAM disk from kernel.
(In EDK2, the equivalent solution is called ACPI NFIT.)

On QEMU, I can not make DNS work from the QEMU guest.
The following commands work on qemu_arm64(manually set the http server ip in URI).
  => dhcp
  => setenv gatewayip 10.0.2.2
  => setenv httpserverip 134.160.38.1
  => efidebug boot add -u 3 debian-netinst http://134.160.38.1/Linux/debian/debian-cd/12.1.0/arm64/iso-cd/debian-12.1.0-arm64-netinst.iso
  => efidebug boot order 3
  => bootefi bootmgr

[TODO]
- add test
- stricter wget uri check
- omit the dns process if the given uri has ip address
   -> this will be supported when the lwip migration completes

[change log]
v1 -> v2
- carve out the network handling(wget and dns code) under net/wget.c
- carve out ramdisk creation code under drivers/block/blkmap_helper.c
- wget supports the valid range check to store the received blocks using lmb
- support when the downloaded image have no partiton table but a file system
- not start the .efi file in try_load_entry()
- call efi_check_pe() for .efi file to check the file is PE-COFF image
- add documentation for EFI HTTP Boot

Masahisa Kojima (6):
  net: wget: prevent overwriting reserved memory
  net: wget: add wget with dns utility function
  blk: blkmap: add ramdisk creation utility function
  efi_loader: support boot from URI device path
  cmd: efidebug: add uri device path
  doc: uefi: add HTTP Boot support

 cmd/efidebug.c                |  50 +++++++++
 doc/develop/uefi/uefi.rst     |  21 ++++
 drivers/block/Makefile        |   1 +
 drivers/block/blkmap.c        |  15 ---
 drivers/block/blkmap_helper.c |  53 +++++++++
 include/blkmap.h              |  29 +++++
 include/net.h                 |   8 ++
 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c  | 197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/wget.c                    | 202 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 9 files changed, 554 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/block/blkmap_helper.c


base-commit: cc889bd0754e50a3cd50e8ed3094388480fbec86