[PATCH 1/7] EFI stub documentation updates

Roy Franz roy.franz at linaro.org
Mon Aug 5 19:56:12 EDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:29:02PM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
>> The ARM kernel also has an EFI stub which works largely the same way
>> as the x86 stub, so move the documentation out of x86 directory and
>> update to reflect that it is generic, and add ARM specific text.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/efi-stub.txt     |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt |   65 ---------------------------------
>>  arch/x86/Kconfig               |    2 +-
>>  3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/efi-stub.txt
>>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..7837df1
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
>> +                       The EFI Boot Stub
>> +                  ---------------------------
>> +
>> +On the x86 and ARM platforms, a bzImage can masquerade as a PE/COFF image,
>> +thereby convincing EFI firmware loaders to load it as an EFI
>> +executable. The code that modifies the bzImage header, along with the
>
>
> Minor nit, I don't think there is such a thing as "bzImage" for ARM.
>
> Cheers
> ---Dave
>
Yeah, I don't thinks so either...  How about:

On the x86 and ARM platforms, a kernel zImage/bzImage can masquerade....


Roy



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