Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] efi/arm: decompressor: deal with HYP mode boot gracefully

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:39:08AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 00:38, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:18:43AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > I've given this a spin myself on a RPi4 running 32-bit U-boot, and
> > > everything works as expected, both with and without the GRUB hack
> > > enabled.
> > >
> > > Russell, given that this only affects code inside #ifdef
> > > CONFIG_EFI_STUB, do you have any objections to me taking this as a fix
> > > via the EFI tree? I have a set of fixes I need to queue up and send
> > > out anyway, and I intend to do so early next week.
> >
> > Please don't, I'll be basing my branches off -rc1 (as normal), and if
> > you then submit this as a fix through the EFI tree for merging after
> > rc1, and then send me further EFI work to go through the ARM tree,
> > we'll end up in exactly the same merge issues as we did prior to this
> > merge window.
> >
> 
> Fair enough. What do you suggest instead? Shall I drop this into the
> patch system?

Is it a regression?  If so, sending it prior to -rc1 is permissible.
If not, please drop it in the patch system.

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