From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752838Ab3ABRya (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:54:30 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:48982 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752624Ab3ABRy1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:54:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:54:23 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Shea Levy Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support Message-ID: <20130102175423.GA2881@srcf.ucam.org> References: <50E306FB.6080607@shealevy.com> <50E31BB4.7040702@zytor.com> <710F73BE-9F65-48C9-8739-BFCF097F4B07@shealevy.com> <20130102174319.GA2590@srcf.ucam.org> <4DA0AD0B-49D1-4938-B38D-A15C378167B0@shealevy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA0AD0B-49D1-4938-B38D-A15C378167B0@shealevy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:52:21PM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > But you can't set args when booting from external media (using e.g. > \boot\efi\bootx64.efi), at least not on any system I've seen. And even > if you could, that'd over complicate the install process for new > users. So have an initial wrapper that launches the kernel and passes an argument. You're going to need something equivalent if you want to support Secure Boot. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org