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[U-Boot,v3,6/6] doc: vxworks: Mention chain-loading an x86 kernel via 'bootefi'

Message ID 1530157086-4538-6-git-send-email-bmeng.cn@gmail.com
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Delegated to: Bin Meng
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Series [U-Boot,v3,1/6] x86: efi_loader: Build EFI memory map per E820 table | expand

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Bin Meng June 28, 2018, 3:38 a.m. UTC 
This updates the doc to mention chain-loading an x86 kernel via
'bootefi' command, along with several typos fix.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

---

Changes in v3: None
Changes in v2: None

 doc/README.vxworks | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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Bin Meng July 2, 2018, 1:28 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> This updates the doc to mention chain-loading an x86 kernel via
> 'bootefi' command, along with several typos fix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
>
>  doc/README.vxworks | 18 ++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>

applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!
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diff --git a/doc/README.vxworks b/doc/README.vxworks
index 1aa8e44..3e08711 100644
--- a/doc/README.vxworks
+++ b/doc/README.vxworks
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2013, Miao Yan <miao.yan@windriver.com>
-# Copyright (C) 2015, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2018, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
 
 VxWorks Support
 ===============
@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@  For booting old kernels (6.9.x) on PowerPC and ARM, and all kernel versions
 on other architectures, 'bootvx' shall be used. For booting VxWorks 7 kernels
 on PowerPC and ARM, 'bootm' shall be used.
 
+With CONFIG_EFI_LOADER option, it's possible to chain load a VxWorks x86 kernel
+via the UEFI boot loader application for VxWorks loaded by 'bootefi' command.
+
 VxWorks 7 on PowerPC and ARM
 ---------------------------
-From VxWorks 7, VxWorks starts adopting device tree as its hardware decription
-mechansim (for PowerPC and ARM), thus requiring boot interface changes.
+From VxWorks 7, VxWorks starts adopting device tree as its hardware description
+mechanism (for PowerPC and ARM), thus requiring boot interface changes.
 This section will describe the new interface.
 
 For PowerPC, the calling convention of the new VxWorks entry point conforms to
@@ -53,6 +56,9 @@  gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
 When using 'bootm', just define "bootargs" in the environment and U-Boot will
 handle bootline fix up for the kernel dtb automatically.
 
+When using 'bootefi' to chain load an x86 kernel, the UEFI boot loader
+application for VxWorks takes care of the kernel bootline preparation.
+
 Serial console
 --------------
 It's very common that VxWorks BSPs configure a different baud rate for the
@@ -63,9 +69,9 @@  look like VxWorks hangs somewhere as nothing outputs on the serial console.
 
 x86-specific information
 ------------------------
-Before loading an x86 kernel, one additional environment variable need to be
-provided. This is "vx_phys_mem_base", which represent the physical memory
-base address of VxWorks.
+Before direct loading an x86 kernel via 'bootvx', one additional environment
+variable need to be provided. This is "vx_phys_mem_base", which represent the
+physical memory base address of VxWorks.
 
 Check VxWorks kernel configuration to look for LOCAL_MEM_LOCAL_ADRS. For
 VxWorks 7, this is normally a virtual address and you need find out its