From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, mfleming@intel.com,
dwmw2@infradead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 20:22:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121205202254.GA25398@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo7S2+Vt+9bkGLx_=AY9aSGCvAnkHfqu01gTj=eKs7btNw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:09:25PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> That's right; nobody stepped up to fix the section mismatch. I'm
> happy to fold in your fix, especially if Matthew acks it.
Yes, sorry, I've been way behind on pretty much everything for the past
few months. Please do add my Ack.
> David, Eric, what about the kexec question? It looks to me like this
> wouldn't make things worse than they are today. If I understand
> correctly, today we don't use ROM data from EFI on either an initial
> boot or a kexec. After this patch, we could use EFI ROM data on the
> initial boot, but not after a kexec. So it's worse in the sense that
> the kexec case doesn't match the initial boot, but at least it's not
> something that used to work and is now broken.
I think I'd agree here - it's not ideal, but it's no more broken than
the current situation.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-05 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-23 16:36 Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services Matthew Garrett
2012-08-23 16:36 ` [PATCH V3 1/4] EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR Matthew Garrett
2012-08-23 23:44 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-08-24 4:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-09-04 13:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-09-06 13:59 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-09-06 17:36 ` [PATCH] x86: Fix build warning on 32-bit Matthew Garrett
2012-09-06 20:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-08-23 16:36 ` [PATCH V3 2/4] PCI: Add pcibios_add_device Matthew Garrett
2012-08-23 16:36 ` [PATCH V3 3/4] PCI: Add support for non-BAR ROMs Matthew Garrett
2012-09-05 2:18 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-05 2:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-09-05 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2012-09-05 13:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-09-05 13:30 ` Alan Cox
2012-09-05 13:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-23 16:36 ` [PATCH V3 4/4] X86: Use PCI setup data Matthew Garrett
2012-08-24 9:30 ` Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services David Woodhouse
2012-08-24 12:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-25 17:35 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-12-03 20:02 ` Seth Forshee
2012-12-05 20:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-12-05 20:22 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-12-05 22:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-12-05 21:06 ` David Woodhouse
2012-12-06 0:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-06 0:18 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-06 0:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 0:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-06 0:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 0:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-06 1:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 1:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-06 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 6:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-06 1:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-06 0:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-06 0:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-06 0:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 0:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-06 0:52 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-06 18:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-12-06 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 18:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-06 18:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-06 21:44 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-12-06 0:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
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