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SubjectRe: [PATCH] doc: efi-stub.txt: Fix arm64 paths
On Sat, 28 Nov, at 11:03:23AM, Alan Ott wrote:
> Update documented paths for arm64 files to match current tree.
> ---
> Documentation/efi-stub.txt | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> index 7747024..e157469 100644
> --- a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ arch/x86/boot/header.S and arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c,
> respectively. For ARM the EFI stub is implemented in
> 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.
> +between architectures is in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub.
>
> 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.
> +and drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-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

Thanks Alan, applied.


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