From: Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
To: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"matt.fleming@intel.com" <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] EFI stub documentation updates
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:30:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130806103044.GC2791@e103592.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFECyb9h7aSzOAHC0t-xT1mNxW_CuMqpU8zGD50ZzZYQ74d0fg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:56:12AM +0100, Roy Franz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:29:02PM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> >> The ARM kernel also has an EFI stub which works largely the same way
> >> as the x86 stub, so move the documentation out of x86 directory and
> >> update to reflect that it is generic, and add ARM specific text.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >> Documentation/efi-stub.txt | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt | 65 ---------------------------------
> >> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >> 3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644 Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> >> delete mode 100644 Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..7837df1
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
> >> + The EFI Boot Stub
> >> + ---------------------------
> >> +
> >> +On the x86 and ARM platforms, a bzImage can masquerade as a PE/COFF image,
> >> +thereby convincing EFI firmware loaders to load it as an EFI
> >> +executable. The code that modifies the bzImage header, along with the
> >
> >
> > Minor nit, I don't think there is such a thing as "bzImage" for ARM.
> >
> > Cheers
> > ---Dave
> >
> Yeah, I don't thinks so either... How about:
>
> On the x86 and ARM platforms, a kernel zImage/bzImage can masquerade....
Souds fine to me
Cheers
---Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-06 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 21:29 [PATCH 0/7] RFC: EFI stub for ARM Roy Franz
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 1/7] EFI stub documentation updates Roy Franz
2013-08-05 14:12 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-05 23:56 ` Roy Franz
2013-08-06 10:30 ` Dave P Martin [this message]
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 2/7] Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location Roy Franz
2013-08-06 13:53 ` Matt Fleming
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 3/7] Change EFI helper APIs to be more flexible Roy Franz
2013-08-06 13:53 ` Matt Fleming
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] Add proper definitions for some EFI function pointers Roy Franz
2013-08-06 13:19 ` Matt Fleming
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 5/7] Add strstr to compressed string.c for ARM Roy Franz
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 6/7] Add EFI stub " Roy Franz
2013-08-05 14:11 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-05 15:33 ` Leif Lindholm
2013-08-06 0:06 ` Roy Franz
2013-08-06 10:40 ` Dave P Martin
2013-08-06 10:31 ` Dave P Martin
2013-08-06 3:35 ` Roy Franz
2013-08-02 21:29 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add config EFI_STUB " Roy Franz
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