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From:   Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
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On Di, 12.09.23 17:32, Jan Hendrik Farr (kernel@jfarr.cc) wrote:

> >> The format itself is rather simple. It's just a PE file (as required
> >> by the UEFI spec) that contains a small stub application in the .text,
> >> .data, etc sections that is responsible for invoking the contained
> >> kernel and initrd with the contained cmdline. The kernel image is
> >> placed into a .kernel section, the initrd into a .initrd section, and
> >> the cmdline into a .cmdline section in the PE executable.
> >
> > How does this interact with the existing EFI stub support in
> > linux?
>
> It doesn't. During normal boot of a UKI the stub in it is used
> (systemd-stub, see:
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-stub.html). The
> kernel's own EFI stub will still be in the binary inside the .linux
> section but not used.

That's not true actually, if the inner kernel supports the EFI stub
then systemd-stub actually defers to that for kernel execution. It's
more portable that way, since the kernel then deals with the
differences in the boot protocol on different architectures.

Lennart

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