This provides access to EFI tables after U-Boot has exited boot services. It is not needed in the app since boot services remain alive and we can just call them whenever needed.
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Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
Changes in v6: - Fix 'stuff' typo in comment - Update to 'This function' in comment
Changes in v2: - Fix 'as' typo
include/efi.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/efi.h b/include/efi.h index ca4afaf524b..0aa07193640 100644 --- a/include/efi.h +++ b/include/efi.h @@ -578,6 +578,10 @@ void efi_putc(struct efi_priv *priv, const char ch); /** * efi_info_get() - get an entry from an EFI table * + * This function is called from U-Boot proper to read information set up by the + * EFI stub. It can only be used when running from the EFI stub, not when U-Boot + * is running as an app. + * * @type: Entry type to search for * @datap: Returns pointer to entry data * @sizep: Returns pointer to entry size