From: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] x86, efi: EFI boot stub config file support
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:22:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F690314.3080601@shealevy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F660402.4040300@shealevy.com>
On 03/18/2012 11:49 AM, Shea Levy wrote:
> On 3/18/12 11:45 AM, Shea Levy wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Inlined is a patch to have the kernel read its parameters from a
>> config file when booted via the EFI boot stub without any parameters
>> passed. This patch roughly follows the plan I discussed when
>> proposing this idea, except now the file is found relative to the
>> location of the bzImage and there is no additional check to see if
>> image->parent_handle is NULL (despite the spec saying it will be NULL
>> when the image was loaded by the firmware itself, it was never NULL
>> on any of the systems I tested).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Shea Levy
I haven't yet gotten a reply to this, should I wait until after the
merge window and resubmit it then?
~Shea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-20 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-18 15:45 [RFC][PATCH 1/1] x86, efi: EFI boot stub config file support Shea Levy
2012-03-18 15:49 ` Shea Levy
2012-03-20 22:22 ` Shea Levy [this message]
2012-03-20 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-31 15:41 ` Matt Fleming
2012-06-02 18:32 ` Shea Levy
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