[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported

Atish Patra atishp at atishpatra.org
Mon Jun 19 11:58:28 PDT 2023


On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 2:48 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> The EFI stub is supported on RISC-V so update the documentation that
> explains how the boot image header was reused to support it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst
> index a4a45310c4c4..df2ffc173e80 100644
> --- a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst
> @@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ header in future.
>  Notes
>  =====
>
> -- This header can also be reused to support EFI stub for RISC-V in future. EFI
> -  specification needs PE/COFF image header in the beginning of the kernel image
> -  in order to load it as an EFI application. In order to support EFI stub,
> -  code0 should be replaced with "MZ" magic string and res3(at offset 0x3c) should
> -  point to the rest of the PE/COFF header.
> +- This header is also reused to support EFI stub for RISC-V. EFI specification
> +  needs PE/COFF image header in the beginning of the kernel image in order to
> +  load it as an EFI application. In order to support EFI stub, code0 is replaced
> +  with "MZ" magic string and res3(at offset 0x3c) points to the rest of the
> +  PE/COFF header.
>
>  - version field indicate header version number
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>
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Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>

-- 
Regards,
Atish



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