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SubjectRe: [tip: x86/misc] Documentation/x86/boot: Peserve type_of_loader=13 for barebox
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Hello Boris,

On 17.10.22 10:47, tip-bot2 for Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> The following commit has been merged into the x86/misc branch of tip:
>
> Commit-ID: f0a8dec99a55aee896a1e6739ecf737f4524094a
> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/f0a8dec99a55aee896a1e6739ecf737f4524094a
> Author: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> AuthorDate: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:57:53 +02:00
> Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> CommitterDate: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:11:09 +02:00
>
> Documentation/x86/boot: Peserve type_of_loader=13 for barebox

Thanks for applying. In case the branch is not non-rebaseable:

s/Peserve/Reserve/ in the commit message title.

Cheers,
Ahmad

>
> barebox[1], a bootloader for mostly ARM and MIPS embedded systems, can
> also be built as EFI payload for x86[2] to provide redundant power-fail
> safe, watchdog-supervised boot up.
>
> Since its v2015.09.0 release, it has been booting Linux on x86 with
> type_of_loader=0xff[3]. Reserve 13, the next free id, so that can be
> used instead in the future.
>
> [1]: https://www.barebox.org/
> [2]: https://www.barebox.org/doc/latest/boards/efi.html
> [3]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/barebox/v2022.09.0/source/common/efi/payload/image.c#L217
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221002125752.3400831-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de
> ---
> Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
> index 894a198..240d084 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
> @@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+
> 11 Minimal Linux Bootloader
> <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
> 12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack
> + 13 barebox
> == =======================================
>
> Please contact <hpa@zytor.com> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned.
>


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