Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86,module: Detect CRn and DRn manipulation

Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08T11:14:21Z

On 08.04.20 11:25, David Laight wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka
>> Sent: 08 April 2020 09:59
> ...
>> At the risk of cutting our own branch off: That's not the firmware
>> loader, it's ioremap with PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC.
>
> You could link the 'blob' into the .text part of a normal
> kernel module and then load that.

Sure, also possible. Was just more convenient so far to replace the
hypervisor binary without having to recompile the driver module.

Jan

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