Re: [PATCH 1/2] UEFI arm64: add noefi boot param

Dave Young
2014-08-07T06:19:19Z

On 08/06/14 at 03:18pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug, at 04:10:45PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't we clear the bit here if we failed to enable runtime
> > services for some reason? Other code may test the bit assuming that it
> > signifies that runtime services have been enabled successfully, while
> > this patch changes it to mean that we /intended/ to enable them, which
> > is not quite the same thing.
>
> Yep, good catch. We need to do something similar for efi_runtime_init()
> on x86 too.

The current efi_runtime_init() enables the bit after getting the efi callback
phyaddr of SetVirtualAddressMap.

Thinking more about it, since SetVirtualAddressMap() could fail somehow it
seems better to set EFI_RUNTIME_SERIVCES bit only when enter virtual mode
return EFI_SUCCESS.

Does it make sense to you, Matt?

Thanks
Dave