[PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3

Mark Rutland
2014-10-08T10:07:03Z

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:52:09AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On 7 October 2014 21:07, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> wrote:
> > You need to use a UEFI kernel loader.
>
> No such thing exists.
> The "built-in Linux loader" is a u-boot emulator (try it, it will work
> with a uImage on v7) added for early development purposes and
> unfortunately released in the wild.
> It will very shortly disappear from Linaro UEFI builds.

To further Leif's point, the "built-in Linux loader" is not in the UEFI
spec, and is therefore not a portion of UEFI. It is a crutch, and it
should not be relied upon as anything more than an aid during bringup.

Mark.