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:
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Header notes:
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- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
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- when booting through EFI, code0/code1 are initially skipped.
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res5 is an offset to the PE header and the PE header has the EFI
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entry point (efi_stub_entry). When the stub has done its work, it
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jumps to code0 to resume the normal boot process.
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The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
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from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
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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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**** 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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