[PATCH] efi: EFI Device Tree Fixup Protocol
Device-trees are used to convey information about hardware to the operating
system. Some of the properties are only known at boot time. (One example of
such a property is the number of the boot hart on RISC-V systems.) Therefore
the firmware applies fix-ups to the original device-tree. Some nodes and
properties are added or altered.
When using GRUB's device-tree command the same fix-ups have to be applied.
The EFI Device Tree Fixup Protocol allows to pass the loaded device tree
to the firmware for this purpose.
The protocol can
* add nodes and update properties
* reserve memory according to the /reserved-memory node and the memory
reservation block
* install the device-tree as configuration table
With the patch GRUB checks if the protocol is installed and invokes it if
available. (LP: #
1965796)
Link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-02/msg00013.html
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Gbp-Pq: Name fdt-device-tree-fixup-protocol.patch