linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/x86: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA

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Message-ID: <87jz0xd1sq.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:56:53 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Documentation
 <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, Linux EFI <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, 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, "H. Peter Anvin"
 <hpa@...or.com>, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, Hugo Osvaldo
 Barrera <hugo@...nothugo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/x86: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:

> From: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@...nothugo.nl>
>
> Since the Handover Protocol was deprecated, the recommended approach is
> to provide an initrd using a UEFI boot service with the
> LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path. Documentation for the new
> approach has been no more than an admonition with a link to an existing
> implementation.
>
> Provide a short explanation of this functionality, to ease future
> implementations without having to reverse engineer existing ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@...nothugo.nl>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250428131206.8656-2-hugo@whynothugo.nl
> [Bagas: Don't use :ref: link to EFI stub documentation and refer to
> OVMF/edk2 implementation]
> Co-developed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> ---
> No changes since v2 [1].

Applied, thanks.

jon