Bug 10212

Summary: Support to deploy non-bootloader-specific files in EFI partition when build hddimg image
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BSPs Reporter: Jianxun Zhang <jianxun.zhang>
Component: bsps-oe-coreAssignee: Todor Minchev <todor.minchev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: sgw
Version: 2.2   
Target Milestone: 2.3 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 10126    

Description Jianxun Zhang 2016-09-02 19:45:46 UTC 
Currently only bootloader-specific artifacts (grub-efi or systemd-boot/gummiboot) can be deployed to EFI FAT partition when building a hddimg image. It meets usual requirements to boot an EFI system, but limits the support once we need to deploy files for other EFI application or document text files on installation media.

We need some way in some OE classes to achieve this. Note this task does't cover direct-boot with wic which should be a backend to consume whatever we deployed into hddimg dir (per my opinion). The later is tracked in:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10073

I mark this ticket to cause document change, assuming a new variable or syntax added for this feature.
Comment 1 Todor Minchev 2016-12-13 23:03:15 UTC 
Patch sent to mailing list for review:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2016-December/033537.html
Comment 2 Todor Minchev 2016-12-21 16:47:47 UTC 
patch merged