From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, dsdt@gaugusch.at,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:24:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120324092451.GA3352@liondog.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F6D50DD.4050306@zytor.com>
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:43:09PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> By the way, if "relying on the bootloader" was an option in any way then
> we would already have a solution in the form of the kernel data linked
> list. Unfortunately to the best of my knowledge not a single bootloader
> provides support for it.
... and that's unfortunate because if we had that support, we wouldn't
need to redo the initrd each time microcode or BIOS tables change but
simply point the boot loader to the updated images.
:-(
Btw, hpa, didn't you have someone working on early microcode loading,
any results there?
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-24 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-23 14:29 [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd Thomas Renninger
2012-03-23 15:51 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-23 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 1:42 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24 2:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 3:02 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24 4:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 4:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 4:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24 4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 9:24 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-03-24 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25 8:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-26 1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 14:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-26 0:45 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-26 1:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 14:19 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-26 14:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 14:51 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-27 4:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-27 4:46 ` Peter Stuge
2012-03-27 6:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 18:42 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-24 19:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 19:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-24 19:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-24 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25 9:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-25 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25 4:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-25 9:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-23 20:54 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24 0:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24 1:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-24 1:22 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24 1:26 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-03-24 4:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-26 0:45 ` Thomas Renninger
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