Re: [PATCH 1/7] EFI stub documentation updates

[Dave P Martin]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:56:12AM +0100, Roy Franz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:29:02PM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> >> The ARM kernel also has an EFI stub which works largely the same way
> >> as the x86 stub, so move the documentation out of x86 directory and
> >> update to reflect that it is generic, and add ARM specific text.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/efi-stub.txt     |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt |   65 ---------------------------------
> >>  arch/x86/Kconfig               |    2 +-
> >>  3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> >>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..7837df1
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
> >> +                       The EFI Boot Stub
> >> +                  ---------------------------
> >> +
> >> +On the x86 and ARM platforms, a bzImage can masquerade as a PE/COFF image,
> >> +thereby convincing EFI firmware loaders to load it as an EFI
> >> +executable. The code that modifies the bzImage header, along with the
> >
> >
> > Minor nit, I don't think there is such a thing as "bzImage" for ARM.
> >
> > Cheers
> > ---Dave
> >
> Yeah, I don't thinks so either...  How about:
> 
> On the x86 and ARM platforms, a kernel zImage/bzImage can masquerade....

Souds fine to me

Cheers
---Dave
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