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Message-Id: <20131205200428.8FEBAC40785@trevor.secretlab.ca>
Date:	Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:04:28 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
To:	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>, 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, dave.martin@....com, msalter@...hat.com,
	patches@...aro.org, Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 6/6] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:31:55 -0800, Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>

Dude. Must have commit text. You know better.  :-)

> ---
>  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

Need a blank line between the previous stanza and 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.

Nit: 80 column word wrap is customary.

g.
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