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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst index b24e7c40d832..f8e7407698bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ 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 +kernel. The arm64 EFI stub lives in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64.c and drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c. By using the EFI boot stub it's possible to boot a Linux kernel @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ because the image we're executing is interpreted by the EFI shell, which understands relative paths, whereas the rest of the command line is passed to bzImage.efi. +.. hint:: + It is also possible to provide an initrd using a Linux-specific UEFI + protocol at boot time. See :ref:`pe-coff-entry-point` for details. The "dtb=" option ----------------- |