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 <[email protected]> --- v1 -> v2: - elaborate on what barebox is and add some links to commit message (Boris) v1 was here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ --- Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst index 894a19897005..240d084782a6 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 <[email protected]> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned. -- 2.30.2
