[PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
Palmer Dabbelt
palmer at dabbelt.com
Thu Jul 6 10:44:44 PDT 2023
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:36:26 PDT (-0700), 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>
> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer 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
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
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