Ard Biesheuvel 8b84769a7a Documentation/x86, efi/x86: Clarify EFI handover protocol and its requirements ... The EFI handover protocol was introduced on x86 to permit the boot loader to pass a populated boot_params structure as an additional function argument to the entry point. This allows the bootloader to pass the base and size of a initrd image, which is more flexible than relying on the EFI stub's file I/O routines, which can only access the file system from which the kernel image itself was loaded from firmware. This approach requires a fair amount of internal knowledge regarding the layout of the boot_params structure on the part of the boot loader, as well as knowledge regarding the allowed placement of the initrd in memory, and so it has been deprecated in favour of a new initrd loading method that is based on existing UEFI protocols and best practices. So update the x86 boot protocol documentation to clarify that the EFI handover protocol has been deprecated, and while at it, add a note that invoking the EFI handover protocol still requires the PE/COFF image to be loaded properly (as opposed to simply being copied into memory). Also, drop the code32_start header field from the list of values that need to be provided, as this is no longer required. Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200409130434.6736-7-ardb@kernel.org		2020-04-14 08:32:15 +02:00
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ABI	change email address for Pali Rohár	2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
accounting	doc: cgroup: improve formatting of references	2020-03-02 12:57:03 -07:00
admin-guide	Time(keeping) updates:	2020-04-12 10:13:14 -07:00
arm	docs: arm: tcm: Fix a few typos	2020-02-19 02:42:21 -07:00
arm64	arm64 updates for 5.7:	2020-03-31 10:05:01 -07:00
block	block: Document genhd capability flags	2020-03-12 07:47:22 -06:00
bpf	bpf: lsm: Add Documentation	2020-03-30 01:35:12 +02:00
cdrom
core-api	mm: add pagemap.h to the fine documentation	2020-04-02 09:35:29 -07:00
cpu-freq	docs: cpu-freq: convert cpufreq-stats.txt to ReST	2020-03-06 00:01:02 +01:00
crypto	crypto: algapi - make unregistration functions return void	2019-12-20 14:58:35 +08:00
dev-tools	linux-kselftest-kunit-5.7-rc1	2020-04-01 16:11:40 -07:00
devicetree	nios2 update for v5.7-rc1	2020-04-11 11:38:44 -07:00
doc-guide	Documentation: build warnings related to missing blank lines after explicit markups has been fixed	2020-02-05 10:30:03 -07:00
driver-api	A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree.	2020-04-10 17:53:43 -07:00
fault-injection
fb	fbdev: fbmem: allow overriding the number of bootup logos	2020-01-03 14:27:40 +01:00
features	documentation: vm: Advertise support for pte_special in riscv	2020-02-19 02:41:01 -07:00
filesystems	A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree.	2020-04-10 17:53:43 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide	Documentation: firmware-guide: ACPI: fix table alignment in namespace.rst	2020-04-08 14:27:48 +02:00
fpga	Documentation: fpga: dfl: add descriptions for thermal/power management interfaces	2019-10-16 19:18:26 -07:00
gpu	UAPI Changes:	2020-03-19 10:40:27 +10:00
hid
hwmon	docs: hwmon: Update documentation for isl68137 pmbus driver	2020-03-22 16:42:54 -07:00
i2c	i2c: convert SMBus alert setup function to return an ERRPTR	2020-03-10 12:19:52 +01:00
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband
input
isdn	isdn: capi: dead code removal	2019-12-11 09:12:38 +01:00
kbuild	kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM	2020-04-09 03:18:21 +09:00
kernel-hacking	docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout	2020-03-20 17:16:24 -06:00
leds
livepatch	livepatch: Documentation of the new API for tracking system state changes	2019-11-01 13:08:24 +01:00
locking	Documentation/locking/locktypes: Minor copy editor fixes	2020-03-28 12:47:34 +01:00
m68k
maintainer	Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation	2020-01-24 09:48:39 -07:00
media	media updates for v5.7-rc1	2020-03-30 13:42:05 -07:00
mhi	docs: Add documentation for MHI bus	2020-03-19 07:41:04 +01:00
mips	docs: mips: remove no longer needed au1xxx_ide.rst documentation	2020-03-24 15:53:48 +01:00
misc-devices	Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6	2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
netlabel
networking	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next	2020-03-31 17:29:33 -07:00
nios2
nvdimm	docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection	2020-01-24 09:54:42 -07:00
openrisc	openrisc: configs: Cleanup CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE	2020-01-31 22:10:58 +09:00
parisc
PCI	pci-v5.7-changes	2020-04-03 14:25:02 -07:00
pcmcia
power	Merge branches 'pm-core', 'pm-sleep', 'pm-acpi' and 'pm-domains'	2020-03-30 14:46:58 +02:00
powerpc	powerpc updates for 5.7	2020-04-05 11:12:59 -07:00
process	Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23	2020-04-09 00:02:00 +09:00
RCU	doc: Add rcutorture scripting to torture.txt	2020-02-27 07:03:14 -08:00
riscv	It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's still a	2020-01-29 15:27:31 -08:00
s390
scheduler	Documentation/scheduler: fix links in sched-stats	2019-10-29 04:35:41 -06:00
scsi	SCSI misc on 20200402	2020-04-02 17:03:53 -07:00
security	docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel	2020-03-20 17:01:29 -06:00
sh
sound	ALSA: hda/realtek - Remove now-unnecessary XPS 13 headphone noise fixups	2020-03-31 10:54:06 +02:00
sparc
sphinx	docs: Fix empty parallelism argument	2020-02-25 03:11:04 -07:00
sphinx-static	doc-rst: Reduce CSS padding around Field	2019-10-02 10:03:06 -06:00
spi
target	docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel	2020-03-20 17:01:29 -06:00
timers
trace	New tracing features:	2020-04-05 10:36:18 -07:00
translations	media updates for v5.7-rc1	2020-03-30 13:42:05 -07:00
usb	usb: gadget: add raw-gadget interface	2020-03-15 11:34:48 +02:00
userspace-api	docs: userspace: ioctl-number: remove mc146818rtc conflict	2020-02-13 11:42:02 -07:00
virt	ARM:	2020-04-02 15:13:15 -07:00
vm	mm/zswap: allow setting default status, compressor and allocator in Kconfig	2020-04-07 10:43:41 -07:00
w1	docs: w1: Fix a typo in omap-hdq.rst	2019-12-30 11:58:02 -07:00
watchdog	linux-watchdog 5.4-rc1 tag	2019-09-27 11:17:38 -07:00
x86	Documentation/x86, efi/x86: Clarify EFI handover protocol and its requirements	2020-04-14 08:32:15 +02:00
xtensa
.gitignore	.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier	2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
asm-annotations.rst	Documentation: Call out example SYM_FUNC_* usage as x86-specific	2020-01-16 12:53:16 -07:00
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
Changes
CodingStyle
conf.py	docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx	2020-03-20 17:01:34 -06:00
COPYING-logo
crc32.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt	dma-mapping: remove the DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER flag	2019-11-14 12:01:54 -04:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff	modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file	2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst	Char/Misc driver patches for 5.7-rc1	2020-04-03 13:22:40 -07:00
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
Kconfig
kprobes.txt
kref.txt	docs: kref: Clarify the use of two kref_put() in example code	2020-02-25 03:39:10 -07:00
logo.gif
lzo.txt
mailbox.txt
Makefile	Kbuild updates for v5.7	2020-03-31 16:03:39 -07:00
memory-barriers.txt	Documentation/memory-barriers: Fix typos	2020-02-27 07:03:14 -08:00
nommu-mmap.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
pi-futex.txt
preempt-locking.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt	remoteproc: Add elf64 support in elf loader	2020-03-25 22:29:40 -07:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt	threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change	2020-03-21 17:48:13 +01:00
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
speculation.txt
static-keys.txt
SubmittingPatches
tee.txt	Documentation: tee: add AMD-TEE driver details	2020-01-04 13:49:51 +08:00
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
xz.txt