Add support for network booting using loader.efi.
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Authored by andrew on Nov 12 2015, 11:35 AM.

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rS295144: Add suppor to loader.efi to load files off hte network. For this we need

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For this we need to open the network device in exclusive mode, otherwise
the UEFI network stack may grab the packet before we get a chance to.

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Only done on arm64, on a ThunderX and AMD SoC

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andrew updated this revision to Diff 10126.Nov 12 2015, 11:35 AM

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LGTM with a nit.

sys/boot/efi/libefi/efinet.c
196	Prefer `%lu` with `& ~EFI_ERROR_MASK` although as @jhb said an `EFI_ERR_NUM()` macro would be useful. Or maybe even `efi_err()` like `err(3)`.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 22 2015, 4:00 AM

Closed by commit rS295144: Add suppor to loader.efi to load files off hte network. For this we need (authored by andrew). · Explain WhyFeb 2 2016, 10:39 AM

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