[coreboot] Linux kernel as payload?

Aaron Durbin adurbin at google.com
Thu Jan 21 16:08:08 CET 2016


On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Kitestramuort
<kitestramuort at autistici.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am preparing to flash coreboot on a Thinkpad X230. Currently I use UEFI
> and systemd to boot Linux as the only operating system and I wish to change
> my configuration as little as possible. The most natural option for me would
> be to use TianoCore as payload, however Tiano seems to be still unstable and
> is not particularly well documented.
>
> As an alternative I was considering using the kernel itself as payload. But
> what happens when I need to update the kernel? Will I need to hardware
> reflash coreboot with the new kernel? I wouldn't mind recompiling coreboot
> with a different kernel and software flashing, but I'd like to avoid having
> to dismantle the laptop every time I update the kernel. Can anybody clarify
> this for me please?

You can always kexec() into your new kernel. The one sitting in flash
can be smart enough to interrogate your boot media and determine what
to load. Then just kexec().

>
> best regards
>
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