
13 Jan
2021
13 Jan
'21
2:23 p.m.
initrd=<ramdisk> will stop working. The protocol will only be
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How about
"Linux v5.7 and later can make use of this option. If the boot option selected by the UEFI boot manager specifies an existing file to be used as initial RAM disk, a Linux specific Load File2 protocol will be installed and Linux 5.7+ will ignore any initrd=<ramdisk> command line argument."
installed if bootmgr is used and the file is found on the defined
path. A boot entry of Boot0001 will try to match Initrd0001 and use
This does not match the implementation.
it. Initrd EFI variable format should be '<dev> <part> <filename>'
i.e 'mmc 0:1 boot/initrd'
"The efidebug command can be used to specify the file with the initial RAM disk."
Seems like I missed some text while amending the description. Your proposal sounds good I'll update it.
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In all our other coding this variable is called ret. I would prefer to do the same here too.
No problem
Cheers /Ilias
Best regards