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From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, greg@kroah.com,
	matt@console-pimps.org, toshi.kani@hp.com
Subject: Re: [patch 5/9 v3] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:28:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131125052858.GA6330@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131123131518.GC24148@pd.tnic>

On 11/23/13 at 02:15pm, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:48:50AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > 	efi.config_table = (unsigned long)efi.systab->tables;
> > > 	efi.fw_vendor	 = (unsigned long)efi.systab->fw_vendor;
> > > 	efi.runtime	 = (unsigned long)efi.systab->runtime;
> > 
> > Hmm, UEFI spec mentions the them like below so I use the order:
> 
> I'm sure by now you know you should not really trust the UEFI spec, or
> any other spec for that matter :)
> 
> > Several fields of the EFI System Table must be converted from
> > physical pointers to virtual pointers using the ConvertPointer()
> > service. These fields include FirmwareVendor, RuntimeServices,
> > and ConfigurationTable.
> > 
> > But since you like the reverse I can change it in next version.
> 
> The reverse was simply a suggestion. The vertical alignment was more
> what I aimed at because it makes this chunk much more readable IMO.
> 

Got your point about alignment, will update.

--
Thanks
Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-25  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-21  6:17 [patch 0/9 v3] kexec kernel efi runtime support dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 1/9 v3] efi: remove unused variables in __map_region dyoung
2013-11-21 15:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 2/9 v3] efi: add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed dyoung
2013-11-21 16:39   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-22  2:59     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 3/9 v3] efi: reserve boot service fix dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 4/9 v3] efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function dyoung
2013-11-21 16:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-22  2:54     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 5/9 v3] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs dyoung
2013-11-21 16:42   ` Greg KH
2013-11-22  2:51     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21 16:57   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-22  2:48     ` Dave Young
2013-11-23 13:15       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-25  5:28         ` Dave Young [this message]
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 6/9 v3] efi: export efi runtime memory mapping " dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 7/9 v3] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 8/9 v3] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 9/9 v3] x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs dyoung
2013-11-21 16:45   ` Greg KH
2013-11-22  2:45     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:52 ` [patch 0/9 v3] kexec kernel efi runtime support Dave Young
2013-11-22 22:29 ` Toshi Kani

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