On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:32:59PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> The existing linux loader for 32-bit ARM is really only a piggy-back
> on the U-Boot loader, and for UEFI it's entirely possible to reuse
> the same loader across multiple architectures.
>
> This set will stop the ability to boot non-efistub kernels on arm-efi,
> but that has really only ever worked by luck.
>
> Also, both arm and arm64 have certain requirements with regards to
> placement of the initrd, which weren't honored by the existing loader -
> leading to theoretical issues on arm and some very observable ones on
> arm64 systems with large amounts of RAM or large holes in the memory
> map. So ensure the unified loader respects these requirements.

Entire patchset LGTM. If there are no objections I will apply
it in a week or so.

Daniel

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