Re: [PATCH v2] efi: libstub: add support for the apple_set_os protocol

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Mon Jul 01 2024 - 03:51:42 EST


On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 09:44, Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:30:34AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Assuming that Intel Macs implement the EFI SMBIOS protocol, reusing
> > the existing pieces should be rather straight-forward. Something like
> > the below should work in that case (whitespace damage courtesy of
> > gmail)
> >
> > Note that the smbios.c libstub source file needs some changes to
> > build correctly for x86 with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y, but I can take care
> > of that.
>
> Orlando, Aditya, could you test Ard's patch with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=n?
>

Yes, please test so we can check whether Intel Macs expose this
protocol in the first place.

Note that the following hunk is needed too:

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index 06f0428a723c..1f32d6cf98d6 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -77,5 +77,5 @@
lib-$(CONFIG_ARM) += arm32-stub.o
lib-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += kaslr.o arm64.o arm64-stub.o smbios.o
-lib-$(CONFIG_X86) += x86-stub.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_X86) += x86-stub.o smbios.o
lib-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += x86-5lvl.o
lib-$(CONFIG_RISCV) += kaslr.o riscv.o riscv-stub.o