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authorHuang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2008-01-30 13:31:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:31:19 +0100
commit9ad65e4748f55e3159283d7fa9d54fb30c086113 (patch)
treec562b13be18497327cc772d52739cddcf369845d /Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt
parentde18c850af701ac9512b7239e88fa45e4c168771 (diff)
x86: EFI runtime service support: document for EFI runtime services
This patch adds document for EFI x86_64 runtime services support. Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ Mechanics:
- Build the kernel with the following configuration.
CONFIG_FB_EFI=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
+ If EFI runtime services are expected, the following configuration should
+ be selected.
+ CONFIG_EFI=y
+ CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y or m # optional
- Create a VFAT partition on the disk
- Copy the following to the VFAT partition:
elilo bootloader with x86_64 support, elilo configuration file,
@@ -27,3 +31,8 @@ Mechanics:
can be found in the elilo sourceforge project.
- Boot to EFI shell and invoke elilo choosing the kernel image built
in first step.
+- If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
+ kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
+ services.
+ noefi turn off all EFI runtime services
+ reboot_type=k turn off EFI reboot runtime service