linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] doc: efi-stub.txt: Fix arm64 paths

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:32:30 +0100
From:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Alan Ott <alan@...tiron.co.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] doc: efi-stub.txt: Fix arm64 paths

On 14 December 2015 at 19:26, Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Alan Ott <alan@...tiron.co.uk>
>
> Update documented paths for arm64 files to match current tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@...tiron.co.uk>
> Cc: Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>


> ---
>  Documentation/efi-stub.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> index 7747024d3bb7..e15746988261 100644
> --- a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ arch/x86/boot/header.S and arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c,
>  respectively. For ARM the EFI stub is implemented in
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S and
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-stub.c. EFI stub code that is shared
> -between architectures is in drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c.
> +between architectures is in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub.
>
>  For arm64, there is no compressed kernel support, so the Image itself
>  masquerades as a PE/COFF image and the EFI stub is linked into the
>  kernel. The arm64 EFI stub lives in arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
> -and arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c.
> +and drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c.
>
>  By using the EFI boot stub it's possible to boot a Linux kernel
>  without the use of a conventional EFI boot loader, such as grub or
> --
> 2.6.2
>
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