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Message-ID: <20151202092430.GA2551@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 09:24:30 +0000
From: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To: Alan Ott <alan@...tiron.co.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>,
linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: efi-stub.txt: Fix arm64 paths
On Mon, 30 Nov, at 09:36:54AM, Alan Ott wrote:
> Update documented paths for arm64 files to match current tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@...tiron.co.uk>
> ---
> 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 7747024..e157469 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
Thanks, applied for v4.5.
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