The following commit has been merged into the x86/misc branch of tip: Commit-ID: f0a8dec99a55aee896a1e6739ecf737f4524094a Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/f0a8dec99a55aee896a1e6739ecf737f4524094a Author: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:57:53 +02:00 Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:11:09 +02:00 Documentation/x86/boot: Peserve type_of_loader=13 for barebox barebox[1], a bootloader for mostly ARM and MIPS embedded systems, can also be built as EFI payload for x86[2] to provide redundant power-fail safe, watchdog-supervised boot up. Since its v2015.09.0 release, it has been booting Linux on x86 with type_of_loader=0xff[3]. Reserve 13, the next free id, so that can be used instead in the future. [1]: https://www.barebox.org/ [2]: https://www.barebox.org/doc/latest/boards/efi.html [3]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/barebox/v2022.09.0/source/common/efi/payload/image.c#L217 Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221002125752.3400831-1-a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst index 894a198..240d084 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst @@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ 11 Minimal Linux Bootloader <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de> 12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack + 13 barebox == ======================================= Please contact <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned.
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