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- The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
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- UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a specification
- governing the behaviours of compatible firmware interfaces. It is
- maintained by the UEFI Forum - http://www.uefi.org/.
- UEFI is an evolution of its predecessor 'EFI', so the terms EFI and
- UEFI are used somewhat interchangeably in this document and associated
- source code. As a rule, anything new uses 'UEFI', whereas 'EFI' refers
- to legacy code or specifications.
- UEFI support in Linux
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- Booting on a platform with firmware compliant with the UEFI specification
- makes it possible for the kernel to support additional features:
- - UEFI Runtime Services
- - Retrieving various configuration information through the standardised
- interface of UEFI configuration tables. (ACPI, SMBIOS, ...)
- For actually enabling [U]EFI support, enable:
- - CONFIG_EFI=y
- - CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS=y or m
- The implementation depends on receiving information about the UEFI environment
- in a Flattened Device Tree (FDT) - so is only available with CONFIG_OF.
- UEFI stub
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- The "stub" is a feature that extends the Image/zImage into a valid UEFI
- PE/COFF executable, including a loader application that makes it possible to
- load the kernel directly from the UEFI shell, boot menu, or one of the
- lightweight bootloaders like Gummiboot or rEFInd.
- The kernel image built with stub support remains a valid kernel image for
- booting in non-UEFI environments.
- UEFI kernel support on ARM
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- UEFI kernel support on the ARM architectures (arm and arm64) is only available
- when boot is performed through the stub.
- When booting in UEFI mode, the stub deletes any memory nodes from a provided DT.
- Instead, the kernel reads the UEFI memory map.
- The stub populates the FDT /chosen node with (and the kernel scans for) the
- following parameters:
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- Name Size Description
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- linux,uefi-system-table 64-bit Physical address of the UEFI System Table.
- linux,uefi-mmap-start 64-bit Physical address of the UEFI memory map,
- populated by the UEFI GetMemoryMap() call.
- linux,uefi-mmap-size 32-bit Size in bytes of the UEFI memory map
- pointed to in previous entry.
- linux,uefi-mmap-desc-size 32-bit Size in bytes of each entry in the UEFI
- memory map.
- linux,uefi-mmap-desc-ver 32-bit Version of the mmap descriptor format.
- kaslr-seed 64-bit Entropy used to randomize the kernel image
- base address location.
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