linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/6] Add config EFI

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Message-Id: <1380385403-31904-7-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org>
Date:	Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:23:23 -0700
From:	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, matt.fleming@...el.com,
	linux@....linux.org.uk
Cc:	leif.lindholm@...aro.org, grant.likely@...aro.org,
	dave.martin@....com, msalter@...hat.com,
	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 43594d5..9c84429 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1805,6 +1805,17 @@ config UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY
 	  However, if the CPU data cache is using a write-allocate mode,
 	  this option is unlikely to provide any performance gain.
 
+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
 	prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
-- 
1.7.10.4

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