Commit 686966d8 authored Feb 08, 2013 by H. Peter Anvin

x86, doc: Add a bootloader ID for OVMF



OVMF (an implementation of UEFI based on TianoCore used in virtual
environments) now has the ability to boot Linux natively; this is used
for "qemu -kernel" and similar things in a UEFI environment.

Accordingly, assign it a bootloader ID.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

parent e575a86f

Documentation/x86/boot.txt

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Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+
		F Special (0xFF = undefined)
		10 Reserved
		11 Minimal Linux Bootloader <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
		12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack

		Please contact <hpa@zytor.com> if you need a bootloader ID
		value assigned.