From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Ott Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: efi-stub.txt: Fix arm64 paths Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 11:12:00 -0500 Message-ID: <5659D250.3000609@softiron.co.uk> References: <1448726603-17600-1-git-send-email-alan@softiron.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1448726603-17600-1-git-send-email-alan@softiron.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Fleming , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Roy Franz , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On 11/28/2015 11:03 AM, Alan Ott wrote: > Update documented paths for arm64 files to match current tree. > --- > 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 To follow up on this one, it additionally appears that commit 719e284369d23c3feb02d02ad58b3a516df47806 [1] was premature, as ARM support for EFI never fully made it into mainline, and the files referenced[2] do not exist anywhere in the history. Alan. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/4/401 [2] arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S, and arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-stub.c