x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:03:13 +0000 (12:03 +0000)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:11:41 +0000 (09:11 -0700)
commit0c7596621e313bfcfbacb288e768c7150f5de9e0
treed1d65365794d5ca136f053cda174b822c8aa7b85
parent9fa7dedad3d30345c843bd82db02c4d6169e5f61
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>
Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/Kconfig