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authorMark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>2013-11-30 01:00:14 +0400
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2014-04-30 22:57:05 +0400
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doc: arm64: add description of EFI stub support
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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@@ -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