Re: [PATCH 2/2] efi: implement interruptible runtime services

[Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 08 Jan, at 02:57:13PM, Sylvain Chouleur wrote:
> 
> I understand, like I said above I'll modify efi_interruptible handlers to
> call legacy ones in case of panic context.
> I would like to avoid removing the panic part of this patch and take time
> to clean it before merging the whole.
 
OK, well at least split out the panic diddling into a separate patch
so that we can discuss the merits of it separately to the other, less
contentious changes.

> > Kconfig is a last resort because it's a build-time decision and
> > greatly limits the flexibility of the kernel. It becomes no longer
> > possible to run a single kernel image with various CONFIG_* enabled on
> > x86 hardware - you now need a special EFI_INTERRUPTIBLE build.
> >
> > Which apart from being a major headache for distributions in general
> > is generally frowned upon for the x86 architecture.
> >
> > If there's any way at all of making this a runtime decision that would
> > be much better.
> 
> I think the best would be to bind this driver with the one which receives the
> interrupts from CSE to write the variables. Then we would have a consistency
> on the feature.
> Does this seems ok for you?

I think that'd be an improvement, yeah.