Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add exitcode support

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 18.08.2015 21:17, Ben Hildred wrote:
> Let's assume for a minute that I have compiled grub as a multiboot image
> and have called it from another bootloader, say iPXE.Now iPXE assumes
> that any false return is an error. What happens when grub returns with
> exit next, does iPXE get a true or false? What about exit fred where
> fred is not defined by any platform? What if I do an exit config which
> is only defined for coreboot?
Neither multiboot nor coreboot have any return semantics. The situation
with current platforms is as follows:
No return/exit semantics at all or machine shutdown:
i386_coreboot, i386_qemu, i386_multiboot, mips_qemu_mips, mips_loongson
no-args exit:
*-ieee1275, i386-pc, mips-arc
Xen semantics (crash vs poweroff):
*-xen
EFI semantics:
*-efi
Unix-like semantics:
arm-uboot, emu

Emu is of no real interest and I have no idea what Uboot does with
return code but I suppose nothing.

This leaves us only with xen and EFI semantics. Xen is enough of outlier
to handle it separately. So only EFI is remaining.

On i386-pc the default behaviour of exit is to try next boot entry. EFI
should probably do the same. What is the current behaviour of grub_exit
and what is the value in returning EFI_SUCCESS ?
Can we have returncode-aware command to be EFI-specific?

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