From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:07:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3 In-Reply-To: References: <20141007180954.GH27464@redhat.com> <1412712462.32313.127.camel@smoke> Message-ID: <20141008100703.GI27216@leverpostej> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:52:09AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote: > On 7 October 2014 21:07, Geoff Levand 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.