[PATCH V6 8/8] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig

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The previous patches have added the implementation of the EFI stub
functionality to the kernel, so now the Kconfig support is added
to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 1ab24cc..b650a38 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1867,6 +1867,17 @@ config EFI
 	  However, even with this option, the resultant kernel will
 	  continue to boot on non-UEFI platforms.
 
+config EFI_STUB
+	bool "EFI stub support"
+	depends on EFI && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+	---help---
+	  This kernel feature allows a zImage to be loaded directly by EFI
+	  firmware without the use of a bootloader.  A PE/COFF header is
+	  added to the zImage in a way that makes the binary both a Linux
+	  zImage and an PE/COFF executable that can be executed directly by
+	  EFI firmware.
+	  See Documentation/efi-stub.txt for more information.
+
 config SECCOMP
 	bool
 	prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
-- 
1.7.10.4

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