Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:05:45 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Only print warning when desc_size is smaller than defined one. |
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:22:25AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 1. bootloader aka grub.efi will convert efi memmap to e820 memmap and pass it in boot params. > and current grub.efi does not compare desc_size and struct size.
So we'll already have crashed and burned before we got here, and so this check will never fire. I sent a patch to just remove the message on the 28th of March.
There's no way someody could ship a system with a desc_size that's smaller than sizeof(memdesc). It wouldn't boot anything.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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