Re: [PATCH 0/1] loader/efi/chainloader: Enhance error message of chainloader command

2025-04-25 Thread khaliid caliy
Thanks for the suggestion of textual representation of all uefi error codes. Well that seems interesting, however this kinda error handling I found in a lot of places in the grub UEFI part. So i don't think it is ideal, if i do then there must be a large set of modifications in the entire UEFI par

Re: [PATCH 0/1] loader/efi/chainloader: Enhance error message of chainloader

2025-04-25 Thread khaliid caliy
Thanks for the suggestion of textual representation of all uefi error codes. Well that seems interesting, however this kinda error handling I found in a lot of places in the grub UEFI part. So i don't think it is ideal, if i do then there must be a large set of modifications in the entire UEFI par

[PATCH 1/1] loader/efi/linux: Enhance linux command error messages

2025-04-25 Thread khaliid caliy
On linux command also it requires to improve the way `StartImage and `LoadImage` is checked. But first there is things i need to point, while currently the command is did well by printing the hex value of the status of `StartImage` however some UEFI status code documentation is bad and not well do

Re: [PATCH 0/1] loader/efi/chainloader: Enhance error message of chainloader command

2025-04-25 Thread Mate Kukri
I think it would be better if we had a table of strings with the textual representation of all UEFI status codes and have that printed instead of unreadable hex salad. Mate On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM khaliid caliy wrote: > > This patch addresses some undescriptive error messages that grub >

[PATCH 0/1] loader/efi/chainloader: Enhance error message of chainloader command

2025-04-25 Thread khaliid caliy
This patch addresses some undescriptive error messages that grub chainloader command returns when issue encountered, specifically during the loading of the uefi image or starting the image. As per uefi UEFI specification (2.11) boot service functions `StartImage()` and `LoadImage` return error cod