From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758717Ab2CTWYf (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:24:35 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50175 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758668Ab2CTWYb (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4F690390.2060009@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:24:16 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shea Levy CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, Matt Fleming , Maarten Lankhorst Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] x86, efi: EFI boot stub config file support References: <4F660313.1080301@shealevy.com> <4F660402.4040300@shealevy.com> <4F690314.3080601@shealevy.com> In-Reply-To: <4F690314.3080601@shealevy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/20/2012 03:22 PM, Shea Levy wrote: > 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? > Yes, please. -hpa