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authorBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2021-06-21 05:12:32 +0300
committerBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2021-11-01 04:50:55 +0300
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docs: uefi: Update stale U-Boot on EFI doc
The existing intructions in the U-Boot on EFI doc do not work with the latest QEMU. Update the doc with the correct instructions, as well as using the new OVMF URL link. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/develop/uefi/u-boot_on_efi.rst b/doc/develop/uefi/u-boot_on_efi.rst
index c9a41bc919..43afb11de5 100644
--- a/doc/develop/uefi/u-boot_on_efi.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/uefi/u-boot_on_efi.rst
@@ -72,17 +72,19 @@ You will end up with one of these files depending on what you build for:
Trying it out
-------------
QEMU is an emulator and it can emulate an x86 machine. Please make sure your
-QEMU version is 2.3.0 or above to test this. You can run the payload with
+QEMU version is 6.0.0 or above to test this. You can run the payload with
something like this::
mkdir /tmp/efi
cp /path/to/u-boot*.efi /tmp/efi
- qemu-system-x86_64 -bios bios.bin -hda fat:/tmp/efi/
+ qemu-system-x86_64 -pflash edk2-x86_64-code.fd -hda fat:rw:/tmp/efi/
Add -nographic if you want to use the terminal for output. Once it starts
type 'fs0:u-boot-payload.efi' to run the payload or 'fs0:u-boot-app.efi' to
-run the application. 'bios.bin' is the EFI 'BIOS'. Check [2] to obtain a
-prebuilt EFI BIOS for QEMU or you can build one from source as well.
+run the application. 'edk2-x86_64-code.fd' is the EFI 'BIOS'. QEMU already
+ships both 32-bit and 64-bit EFI BIOS images. For 32-bit EFI 'BIOS' image,
+use 'edk2-i386-code.fd'.
+
To try it on real hardware, put u-boot-app.efi on a suitable boot medium,
such as a USB stick. Then you can type something like this to start it::
@@ -232,4 +234,4 @@ Google, Inc
July 2015
* [1] http://www.qemu.org
-* [2] http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/
+* [2] https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/OVMF