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doc: arm64: add description of EFI stub support

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Add explanation of arm64 EFI stub and kernel image header changes
needed to masquerade as a PE/COFF application.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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Mark Salter 2013-11-29 16:00:14 -05:00 committed by Matt Fleming
parent 3c7f255039
commit cdd7857898
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Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
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@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:
Header notes:
- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
- when booting through EFI, code0/code1 are initially skipped.
res5 is an offset to the PE header and the PE header has the EFI
entry point (efi_stub_entry). When the stub has done its work, it
jumps to code0 to resume the normal boot process.
The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the

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Documentation/efi-stub.txt
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@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ 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.
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.
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
elilo. Since the EFI boot stub performs the jobs of a boot loader, in
@ -28,7 +33,8 @@ the extension the EFI firmware loader will refuse to execute it. It's
not possible to execute bzImage.efi from the usual Linux file systems
because EFI firmware doesn't have support for them. For ARM the
arch/arm/boot/zImage should be copied to the system partition, and it
may not need to be renamed.
may not need to be renamed. Similarly for arm64, arch/arm64/boot/Image
should be copied but not necessarily renamed.
**** Passing kernel parameters from the EFI shell
@ -72,7 +78,7 @@ is passed to bzImage.efi.
**** The "dtb=" option
For the ARM architecture, we also need to be able to provide a device
tree to the kernel. This is done with the "dtb=" command line option,
For the ARM and arm64 architectures, we also need to be able to provide a
device tree to the kernel. This is done with the "dtb=" command line option,
and is processed in the same manner as the "initrd=" option that is
described above.