boot1.efifat: provide a fallback startup.nsh
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Authored by emaste on Apr 7 2016, 8:28 PM.

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rS297871: boot1.efifat: provide a fallback startup.nsh

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In case the firmware falls through to executing startup.sh, populate it with the name of our boot loader. In normal operation this should not be necessary but may allow the system to boot if it would otherwise just remain at a shell prompt.

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emaste updated this revision to Diff 14995.Apr 7 2016, 8:28 PM

emaste retitled this revision from to boot1.efifat: provide a fallback startup.nsh.

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emaste added reviewers: imp, smh, andrew.

I've seen this issue on a few ARM systems.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 7 2016, 10:27 PM

Seems reasonable to me

We do this at Netflix. It's a good idea, at least so far...

Closed by commit rS297871: boot1.efifat: provide a fallback startup.nsh (authored by emaste). · Explain WhyApr 12 2016, 8:52 PM

This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

And regenerated the template files in rS297872

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