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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA@public.gmane.org>,
	mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org,
	tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org,
	linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/EFI: additional checks in efi_bgrt_init()
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 14:52:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121107145204.GA30662@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509A82E402000078000A6FC8-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:48:52PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:

> On my system, the table points to EfiReservedMemoryType
> and appears to have valid data despite the valid flag being
> clear. But before encoding the invalidation into Xen in a form
> other than clearing the valid bit, I'd really like to get
> confirmation that e.g. clearing the image address is indeed a
> "proper" thing to do. If no-one among you can "officially" tell
> what the intentions here are, would you know who can?

If you don't want to provide it at all, just don't provide a BGRT. 
Microsoft wrote that bit of the ACPI spec, so you'd probably need to ask 
them what their intentions were.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-07 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-05 15:26 [PATCH] x86/EFI: additional checks in efi_bgrt_init() Jan Beulich
     [not found] ` <5097E8C102000078000A661B-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-05 18:37   ` Josh Triplett
2012-11-05 18:43     ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]       ` <20121105184346.GA13508-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-05 19:00         ` Josh Triplett
2012-11-06  8:57           ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]             ` <5098DEF202000078000A695F-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-06 12:55               ` Josh Triplett
2012-11-06 13:37                 ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]                   ` <5099209602000078000A6B3C-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-06 16:16                     ` Josh Triplett
2012-11-07 14:48           ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]             ` <509A82E402000078000A6FC8-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-07 14:52               ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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