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      New Patches Aim To Make x86 Linux EFI Stub & Relocatable Kernel Support Unconditional

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 January 2026

    Prominent Intel Linux engineer H. Peter Anvin has posted a new patch series working to clean-up the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel boot code. Besides cleaning up the code, the kernel configuration would drop options around EFI stub mode and relocatable kernels in making those features now always enabled...