[PATCH v3 19/19] x86: doc: coreboot: Mention 64-bit Linux distros

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Aug 19 23:22:57 CEST 2023


Add a little more detail as to why coreboot64 is preferred for booting
Linux distros.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v2)

Changes in v2:
- Add new patch

 doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
index 88437c27740e..a32c3a864f90 100644
--- a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
+++ b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ build in `$CBDIR`::
       -device ahci,id=ahci \
       -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bus=ahci.0 \
 
+This allows booting and installing various distros, many of which are
+64-bit-only, so cannot work with the 32-bit 'coreboot' build.
 
 CBFS access
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-- 
2.42.0.rc1.204.g551eb34607-goog



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