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Date:   Fri, 13 May 2022 16:30:39 +0200
From:   Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
To:     hpa@...or.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     barebox@...ts.infradead.org,
        Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: x86: boot: reserve type_of_loader=13 for barebox

barebox built as EFI payload has been booting Linux on x86 with
type_of_loader=0xff since v2015.09.0.

Reserve 13, the next free id, so this can be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
index 894a19897005..240d084782a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ Protocol:	2.00+
 	11 Minimal Linux Bootloader
 	   <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
 	12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack
+	13 barebox
 	== =======================================
 
   Please contact <hpa@...or.com> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned.
-- 
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