Commit Graph
16 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
alex 4e10d57143 fix(boot): tidy the devicetree, reboot and profile handling after review
Only warn about a devicetree under Secure Boot when the entry has one,
skip the fixup if its protocol can't be opened, and reject a devicetree
whose size is smaller than its header. Announce a reboot before the
delay, advertise the multi-profile UKI feature, and treat a Type 1 entry
with a profile after the first as an extra profile that is not picked as
the fallback default. A failure to read Sprout's own partition no longer
drops the entries of the XBOOTLDR partition, and the README lists every
initrd slot and describes the reboot behaviour more exactly.
2026-10-03 20:23:57 -07:00
alex ac4ec69c02 feat(boot): install the devicetree of a BLS entry
Add a devicetree option to the chainload action, set from the devicetree
key of a BLS entry. The file is installed as the EFI devicetree table
with the memory type that a devicetree has to be in, patched by the
fixup protocol when the firmware has one, and the table of the firmware
is put back when the image returns or fails to start. It is ignored when
Secure Boot is enabled, as it can't be verified, and the DeviceTree
loader feature is advertised.
2026-10-03 20:23:57 -07:00
alex 8447861985 fix(chainload): unload the image if it fails before being started
If anything failed between loading the image and starting it, like
reading an initrd, registering the media loader, or setting the load
options, the loaded image was left in memory. Unload it in that case.
Once the image is started, the firmware unloads it when it exits.
2026-09-26 20:52:15 -07:00
alex 5dcfbdc8c5 fix(chainload): don't register an empty initrd
An initrd file, or chain of initrd files, with no contents was still
registered with the initrd media loader, which reports NOT_FOUND for
empty data. The Linux EFI stub treats anything other than
BUFFER_TOO_SMALL as a load error and fails to boot, rather than booting
without an initrd. Skip registering an empty initrd, as the edera
action already does.
2026-09-26 20:52:15 -07:00
alex a77803dfe8 fix(edera): stamp initrd paths before skipping empty ones
The edera action checked whether an initrd path was empty before
stamping it, so a path like "$initrd" that stamped to an empty value
was still read, which failed and aborted boot. Stamp the paths first,
and skip paths that stamp to the root of a filesystem, the same as the
chainload action.
2026-09-26 20:52:15 -07:00
alex e96a5a64c9 fix(initrd): pad each chained initrd to a 4-byte boundary
Chained initrds were concatenated back to back. Linux only finds a cpio
archive at a 4-byte aligned offset when it unpacks concatenated
initrds, so a compressed initramfs with an odd length followed by
another archive, like a microcode or overlay cpio, failed to unpack.
Pad each initrd with zeros to a 4-byte boundary, as GRUB and
systemd-boot do.
2026-09-26 20:52:15 -07:00
alex 9fa57ee197 fix(bootloader-interface): don't fail boot when a variable can't be used
Every Boot Loader Interface variable that couldn't be read, written, or
removed aborted boot. The interface only exchanges information with the
operating system, so log a warning and continue instead. This includes
failing to remove LoaderEntryOneShot or LoaderConfigTimeoutOneShot,
which made every following boot fail the same way, as the variable was
never removed.
2026-09-26 20:52:15 -07:00
alex dd8ae14da8 feat(initrd): support chaining multiple initrds (#101)
Add linux-initrd-chain to the chainload action and initrd-chain to the
edera action. Each file in the list is read in order and concatenated
into a single initrd. The chain can't be combined with the single
initrd option on the same action.

BLS entries with multiple initrds, either as repeated initrd lines or
as multiple paths on one line, previously only loaded the last one.
Parse all of them and set them in the initrd-0 through initrd-7 slots,
which the autoconfigured BLS action now chains. Unused slots stamp to
the filesystem root and are skipped. Entries with more than 8 initrds
are skipped with a warning.
2026-09-26 19:45:47 -07:00
alex 6f84a1014a fix(chainload): skip initrd paths without a file component
Autoconfigured BLS actions use "$root\\$initrd" as the initrd path.
For BLS entries without an initrd line this stamps to the root of the
filesystem, and Sprout tried to read that directory as the initrd,
failing the boot. Treat a path that resolves to no file as no initrd.
2026-09-26 18:58:54 -07:00
alex 9967a7ab80 fix(chainload): release LoadedImage before starting the image
The chainload action held the child image's LoadedImage protocol open
exclusively while calling start_image. Any image that opens its own
LoadedImage protocol exclusively, such as another uefi-rs application
or Sprout itself, then failed with ACCESS_DENIED. Scope the protocol to
setting the load options.
2026-09-26 18:58:54 -07:00
Benjamin Leggett b53d21cea5 Split out parsing stuff as well, and test it 2026-03-25 16:01:28 -04:00
alex c295de4951 chore(sprout): implement iterator stamping to cleanup code 2026-01-26 20:13:52 -08:00
alex 17e729d068 fix(eficore): unregister media loader on drop to prevent more opportunities for leaks (#50) 2025-12-20 22:01:04 -08:00
alex 2da457ee7c feat(boot): clear screen before boot handoff, if --retain-boot-console is not specified on the command-line (#51) 2025-12-20 21:45:35 -08:00
alex 22780e6102 chore(eficore): decouple the shim support from the image load callsites 2025-11-06 11:52:00 -05:00
alex 532fb38d5a chore(code): move crates/sprout to crates/boot and name it edera-sprout-boot 2025-11-03 22:52:54 -05:00