[PATCH V5 6/6] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig

Roy Franz roy.franz at linaro.org
Wed Nov 27 18:31:55 EST 2013


Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index a1b4758..6601985 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1857,6 +1857,16 @@ config EFI
 	  This option is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
 	  However, even with this option, the resultant kernel will
 	  continue to boot on non-UEFI platforms.
+config EFI_STUB
+	bool "EFI stub support"
+	depends on EFI && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+	---help---
+	  This kernel feature allows a zImage to be loaded directly
+	  by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.  A PE/COFF
+	  header is added to the zImage in a way that makes the binary
+	  both a Linux zImage and an PE/COFF executable that can be
+	  executed directly by EFI firmware.
+	  See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information.
 
 config SECCOMP
 	bool
-- 
1.7.10.4




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