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Message-ID: <20190427153137.0bab2ab7@coco.lan>
Date:   Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:31:37 -0300
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To:     Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to
 reST

Em Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:31:45 +0800
Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com> escreveu:

> This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
> add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>

> ---
>  Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst            |  1 +
>  .../x86/x86_64/{uefi.txt => uefi.rst}         | 30 ++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>  rename Documentation/x86/x86_64/{uefi.txt => uefi.rst} (79%)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> index a8cf7713cac9..ddfa1f9d4193 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> @@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ x86_64 Support
>     :maxdepth: 2
>  
>     boot-options
> +   uefi
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.rst
> similarity index 79%
> rename from Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt
> rename to Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.rst
> index a5e2b4fdb170..88c3ba32546f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.rst
> @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +=====================================
>  General note on [U]EFI x86_64 support
> --------------------------------------
> +=====================================
>  
>  The nomenclature EFI and UEFI are used interchangeably in this document.
>  
> @@ -14,29 +17,42 @@ with EFI firmware and specifications are listed below.
>  
>  3. x86_64 platform with EFI/UEFI firmware.
>  
> -Mechanics:
> +Mechanics
>  ---------
> -- Build the kernel with the following configuration.
> +
> +- Build the kernel with the following configuration::
> +
>  	CONFIG_FB_EFI=y
>  	CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
> +
>    If EFI runtime services are expected, the following configuration should
> -  be selected.
> +  be selected::
> +
>  	CONFIG_EFI=y
>  	CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y or m		# optional
> +
>  - Create a VFAT partition on the disk
>  - Copy the following to the VFAT partition:
> +
>  	elilo bootloader with x86_64 support, elilo configuration file,
>  	kernel image built in first step and corresponding
>  	initrd. Instructions on building elilo	and its dependencies
>  	can be found in the elilo sourceforge project.
> +
>  - Boot to EFI shell and invoke elilo choosing the kernel image built
>    in first step.
>  - If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
>    kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
>    services.
> -	noefi		turn off all EFI runtime services
> -	reboot_type=k	turn off EFI reboot runtime service
> +
> +	noefi
> +		turn off all EFI runtime services
> +	reboot_type=k
> +		turn off EFI reboot runtime service
> +
>  - If the EFI memory map has additional entries not in the E820 map,
>    you can include those entries in the kernels memory map of available
>    physical RAM by using the following kernel command line parameter.
> -	add_efi_memmap	include EFI memory map of available physical RAM
> +
> +	add_efi_memmap
> +		include EFI memory map of available physical RAM



Thanks,
Mauro