efi: Bump stub image version for macOS HVF compatibility
The macOS hypervisor framework includes a host-side VMM called VZLinuxBootLoader [1] which implements native support for booting the Linux kernel inside a guest directly (instead of, e.g., via GRUB installed inside the guest). On x86, it incorporates a BIOS style loader that does not implement or expose EFI to the loaded kernel. However, this loader appears to fail when the 'image minor version' field in the kernel image's PE/COFF header (which is generally only used by EFI based bootloaders) is set to any value other than 0x0. [2] Commit e346bebb ("efi: libstub: Always enable initrd command line loader and bump version") incremented the EFI stub image minor version to convey that all EFI stub kernels now implement support for the initrd= command line option, and do so in a way where it can load initrd images from any filesystem known to the EFI firmware (as opposed to prior implementations that could only load initrds from the same volume that the kernel image was loaded from). Unfortunately, bumping the version to v1.1 triggers this issue in VZLinuxBootLoader, breaking the boot on x86. So let's keep the image minor version at 0x0, and bump the image major version instead. While at it, convert this field to a bit field, so that individual features are discoverable from it, as suggested by Linus. So let's bump the major version to v3, and document the initrd= command line loading feature as being represented by bit 1 in the mask. Note that, due to the prior interpretation as a monotonically increasing version field, loaders are still permitted to assume that the LoadFile2 initrd loading feature is supported for any major version value >= 1, even if bit 0 is not set. [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzlinuxbootloader [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/CAG8fp8Teu4G9JuenQrqGndFt2Gy+V4YgJ=hN1xX7AD940YKf3A@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: e346bebb ("efi: libstub: Always enable initrd command ...") Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217485Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <suda.kyoto@gmail.com> [ardb: rewrite comment and commit log] Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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