Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:37:52 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid |
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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. 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...
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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