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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2024-07-17 09:30:58 +0100
committerHeinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>2024-07-19 13:57:44 +0200
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doc: Add a description for bootmeth_sandbox
Add documentation for the sandbox bootmeth. Fix up the compatible string to drop the 'extlinux' part, which is not relevant to this bootmeth. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de> Reviewed-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek@baylibre.com>
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-rw-r--r--doc/develop/bootstd/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst1
-rw-r--r--doc/develop/bootstd/sandbox.rst17
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diff --git a/doc/develop/bootstd/index.rst b/doc/develop/bootstd/index.rst
index 69fd3c2..2c5d2d3 100644
--- a/doc/develop/bootstd/index.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/bootstd/index.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ Standard Boot
pxelinux
qfw
cros
+ sandbox
diff --git a/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst b/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst
index de15fa4..20c5d56 100644
--- a/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/bootstd/overview.rst
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ Bootmeth drivers are provided for booting from various media:
- EFI boot using boot manager
- Android bootflow (boot image v4)
- :doc:`QFW <qfw>`: QEMU firmware interface
+ - :doc:`sandbox <sandbox>` used only for testing
Each driver is controlled by a Kconfig option. If no bootmeth driver is
selected by a compatible string in the devicetree, all available bootmeth
diff --git a/doc/develop/bootstd/sandbox.rst b/doc/develop/bootstd/sandbox.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d501518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/develop/bootstd/sandbox.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+:
+
+Sandbox Bootmeth
+================
+
+The sandbox bootmeth is only used for testing. It does not provide any facility
+for booting an OS. While sandbox can do all the processing before the actual
+boot, it is not connected in this bootmeth.
+
+When invoked on a bootdev, this bootmeth pretends to find a bootflow and creates
+the associated structure.
+
+When the bootflow is booted, the bootmeth returns `-ENOTSUPP` indicating that it
+is not supported.
+
+The compatible string "u-boot,sandbox-bootmeth" is used for the driver. It is present
+if `CONFIG_BOOTMETH_SANDBOX` is enabled.