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Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
The EFI stub is supported on RISC-V so update the documentation that explains how the boot image header was reused to support it. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817130734.10387-3-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
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Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.rst

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- This header can also be reused to support EFI stub for RISC-V in future. EFI
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specification needs PE/COFF image header in the beginning of the kernel image
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in order to load it as an EFI application. In order to support EFI stub,
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code0 should be replaced with "MZ" magic string and res3(at offset 0x3c) should
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point to the rest of the PE/COFF header.
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- This header is also reused to support EFI stub for RISC-V. EFI specification
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needs PE/COFF image header in the beginning of the kernel image in order to
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load it as an EFI application. In order to support EFI stub, code0 is replaced
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with "MZ" magic string and res3(at offset 0x3c) points to the rest of the
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PE/COFF header.
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- version field indicate header version number
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