ARM: add UEFI stub support

This patch adds EFI stub support for the ARM Linux kernel.

The EFI stub operates similarly to the x86 and arm64 stubs: it is a
shim between the EFI firmware and the normal zImage entry point, and
sets up the environment that the zImage is expecting. This includes
optionally loading the initrd and device tree from the system partition
based on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 2b60b843ac5e..81c493156ce8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ SECTIONS
     *(.rodata)
     *(.rodata.*)
   }
+  .data : {
+    /*
+     * The EFI stub always executes from RAM, and runs strictly before the
+     * decompressor, so we can make an exception for its r/w data, and keep it
+     */
+    *(.data.efistub)
+  }
   .piggydata : {
     *(.piggydata)
   }