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[6/6] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig

Message ID 1380385403-31904-7-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Roy Franz Sept. 28, 2013, 4:23 p.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
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 arch/arm/Kconfig |   11 +++++++++++
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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 43594d5..9c84429 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1805,6 +1805,17 @@  config UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY
 	  However, if the CPU data cache is using a write-allocate mode,
 	  this option is unlikely to provide any performance gain.
 
+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"