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From: roy.franz@linaro.org (Roy Franz)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V5 6/6] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:31:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1385595115-21488-7-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385595115-21488-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org>

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index a1b4758..6601985 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1857,6 +1857,16 @@ config EFI
 	  This option is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
 	  However, even with this option, the resultant kernel will
 	  continue to boot on non-UEFI platforms.
+config EFI_STUB
+	bool "EFI stub support"
+	depends on EFI && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+	---help---
+	  This kernel feature allows a zImage to be loaded directly
+	  by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.  A PE/COFF
+	  header is added to the zImage in a way that makes the binary
+	  both a Linux zImage and an PE/COFF executable that can be
+	  executed directly by EFI firmware.
+	  See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information.
 
 config SECCOMP
 	bool
-- 
1.7.10.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-27 23:31 [PATCH V5 0/6] Add ARM EFI stub Roy Franz
2013-11-27 23:31 ` [PATCH V5 1/6] efi-stub.txt updates for ARM Roy Franz
2013-11-29 10:36   ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-05 15:19   ` Grant Likely
2013-11-27 23:31 ` [PATCH V5 2/6] Add shared update_fdt() function for ARM/ARM64 Roy Franz
2013-11-29 11:30   ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-02 14:56     ` Mark Salter
2013-12-02 23:09       ` Roy Franz
2013-12-05 19:24   ` Grant Likely
2013-12-06  0:58     ` Roy Franz
2013-12-05 19:27   ` Grant Likely
2013-11-27 23:31 ` [PATCH V5 3/6] Add strstr to compressed string.c for ARM Roy Franz
2013-11-27 23:31 ` [PATCH V5 4/6] Add EFI stub " Roy Franz
2013-12-05 20:00   ` Grant Likely
2013-12-06  1:25     ` Roy Franz
2013-11-27 23:31 ` [PATCH V5 5/6] Disable stack protection for decompressor/stub Roy Franz
2013-11-27 23:31 ` Roy Franz [this message]
2013-12-05 20:04   ` [PATCH V5 6/6] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig Grant Likely

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