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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S and
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arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-stub.c. EFI stub code that is shared
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between architectures is in drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c.
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+For arm64, there is no compressed kernel support, so the Image itself
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+masquerades as a PE/COFF image and the EFI stub is linked into the
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+kernel. The arm64 EFI stub lives in arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
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+and arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c.
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By using the EFI boot stub it's possible to boot a Linux kernel
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without the use of a conventional EFI boot loader, such as grub or
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elilo. Since the EFI boot stub performs the jobs of a boot loader, in
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@@ -28,7 +33,8 @@ the extension the EFI firmware loader will refuse to execute it. It's
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not possible to execute bzImage.efi from the usual Linux file systems
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because EFI firmware doesn't have support for them. For ARM the
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arch/arm/boot/zImage should be copied to the system partition, and it
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-may not need to be renamed.
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+may not need to be renamed. Similarly for arm64, arch/arm64/boot/Image
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+should be copied but not necessarily renamed.
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**** Passing kernel parameters from the EFI shell
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@@ -72,7 +78,7 @@ is passed to bzImage.efi.
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**** The "dtb=" option
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-For the ARM architecture, we also need to be able to provide a device
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-tree to the kernel. This is done with the "dtb=" command line option,
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+For the ARM and arm64 architectures, we also need to be able to provide a
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+device tree to the kernel. This is done with the "dtb=" command line option,
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and is processed in the same manner as the "initrd=" option that is
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described above.
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