On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 12:58 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > After the EFI stub has done its business, it jumps into the kernel by > branching > to offset #0 of the loaded Image, which is where it expects to find the header > containing a 'branch to stext' instruction. > > However, the header is not covered by any PE/COFF section, so the header may > not actually be loaded at the expected offset. So instead, jump to 'stext' > directly, which is at the base of the PE/COFF .text section, by supplying a > symbol 'stext_offset' to efi-entry.o which contains the relative offset of > stext into the Image. Also replace other open coded calculations of the same > value with a reference to 'stext_offset'
Have you actually seen a situation where the header isn't there? Isn't the kernel header actually part of the pe/coff file and firmware loads the whole file into RAM? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
