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Currently, mixed mode is closely tied to the EFI handover protocol and relies on intimate knowledge of the bootparams structure, setup header etc, all of which are rather byzantine and entirely specific to x86. Even though no other EFI supported architectures are currently known that could support something like mixed mode, it still makes sense to abstract a bit from this, and make it part of a generic Linux on EFI boot protocol. To that end, add a .compat section to the mixed mode binary, and populate it with the PE machine type and entry point address, allowing firmware implementations to match it to their native machine type, and invoke non-native binaries using a secondary entry point. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.