From 8e65a6a3ae63588df226e06fac495de1e097bf64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:45:12 +0000
Subject: Expand discussion of UEFI in kernel and grub sections

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11165 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter08/kernel.xml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter08/kernel.xml')

diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml
index 5c9cf9026..838e2ad94 100644
--- a/chapter08/kernel.xml
+++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml
@@ -121,6 +121,24 @@ File systems  ---&gt;
     Index of Kernel Settings</ulink>
     (&lfs-root;blfs/view/&short-version;/longindex.html#kernel-config-index).</para>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>If your host hardware is using UEFI, then the 'make defconfig'
+      above should automatically add in some EFI-related kernel options.</para>
+
+      <para>In order to allow your LFS kernel to be booted from within your
+      host's UEFI boot environment, your kernel must have this option
+      selected:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump">Processor type and features  ---&gt;
+   [*]   EFI stub support  [CONFIG_EFI_STUB]</screen>
+
+      <para>A fuller description of managing UEFI environments from within LFS
+      is covered by the lfs-uefi.txt hint at
+      <ulink 
+        url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt"/>.
+      </para>
+    </note>
+
     <variablelist>
       <title>The rationale for the above configuration items:</title>
 
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