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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2012-03-16 12:03:13 +0000
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-06-01 09:11:41 -0700
commit0c7596621e313bfcfbacb288e768c7150f5de9e0 (patch)
treed1d65365794d5ca136f053cda174b822c8aa7b85 /arch
parent9fa7dedad3d30345c843bd82db02c4d6169e5f61 (diff)
downloadlinux-0c7596621e313bfcfbacb288e768c7150f5de9e0.tar.gz
x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
Since we can't expect every user to read the EFI boot stub code it
seems prudent to have a couple of paragraphs explaining what it is and
how it works.

The "initrd=" option in particular is tricky because it only
understands absolute EFI-style paths (backslashes as directory
separators), and until now this hasn't been documented anywhere. This
has tripped up a couple of users.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331907517-3985-4-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index d700811785ea..c70684f859e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1506,6 +1506,8 @@ config EFI_STUB
           This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
 	  by EFI firmware without the use of a bootloader.
 
+	  See Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt for more information.
+
 config SECCOMP
 	def_bool y
 	prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"