Hi Trent,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trent Piepho <tpie...@impinj.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 10:17 AM
> To: Henry Beberman <henry.beber...@microsoft.com>; u-
> b...@lists.denx.de
> Cc: tr...@konsulko.com; fabio.este...@nxp.com
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/11] imx: Add bootcmd to load and run UEFI
> from mmc
> 
> On Sat, 2018-07-14 at 00:11 +0000, Henry Beberman wrote:
> > From: Henry Beberman <henry.beber...@microsoft.com>
> >
> > This patch enables i.MX platforms to easily add a boot script to their
> > U-Boot Proper environment to automatically load and execute an EFI
> > firmware from the first FAT partition of an MMC device.
> 
> Is there a reason to force the first partition instead of using the EFI 
> partition
> code to select which partition to boot?
> 
> I also wonder, on a Linux system, is there a reason the EFI partition must use
> FAT?

I need to revise the commit message for this patch. The script is not fixed to 
the first partition of the selected MMC, it scans the disk for partitions 
marked bootable, then checks each one of those until it finds the 
imxboard_efi.fd binary.

We could switch over to using the generic load from CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC if 
there's demand for non-FAT filesystems. We're currently using fatload because 
the EFI partitions in our Windows images are always FAT formatted.

Thanks,
Henry
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