Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:45:31 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid |
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On 11/07/2011 12:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:36:13PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Yes, I think it makes a lot of sense. If we need to introduce new >> meta-types to deal with the fact that there are EFI types that don't map >> to E820, then so be it... and this is *exactly* why we want the EFI >> setup stub to be part of the kernel image and not off in a separate >> bootloader, requiring a stable interface... > > I don't disagree, it's just going to be an absolute pain to manage that > in a secure boot world.
Could you clarify, please?
> Looking at the code, we actually already seem to > have decided to start just making up E820 types, so maybe we should just > do that...
That's what I just said, no? I think we use negative numbers for those.
-hpa
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