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Currently, the initrd= command line option to the EFI stub only supports loading files that reside on the same volume as the loaded image, which is not workable for loaders like GRUB that don't even implement the volume abstraction (EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL), and load the kernel from an anonymous buffer in memory. For this reason, another method was devised that relies on the LoadFile2 protocol. However, the command line loader is rather useful when using the UEFI shell or other generic loaders that have no awareness of Linux specific protocols so let's make it a bit more flexible, by permitting textual device paths to be provided to initrd= as well, provided that they refer to a file hosted on a EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL volume. E.g., initrd=PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0xBE1AFDFA,0x3F,0xFBFC1)/rootfs.cpio.gz Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.