Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Date | Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:00:13 -0500 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>Because it also needs to modify it. Right now kexec userspace >synthesizes struct boot_params from scratch, and does so incorrectly to >boot. I think we have setup_data exported via debugfs but IIRC we >never >got a strong enough use case for sysfs.
Kexec userspace needs updating every time we add functionality to setup_data? That really doesn't sound ideal. If we want to be able to pass secrets between kernels then this needs to be done in kernel space, not userland.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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