Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2012 15:21:35 -0700 | Subject | Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services |
| |
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:09:25PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > >> That's right; nobody stepped up to fix the section mismatch. I'm >> happy to fold in your fix, especially if Matthew acks it. > > Yes, sorry, I've been way behind on pretty much everything for the past > few months. Please do add my Ack. > >> David, Eric, what about the kexec question? It looks to me like this >> wouldn't make things worse than they are today. If I understand >> correctly, today we don't use ROM data from EFI on either an initial >> boot or a kexec. After this patch, we could use EFI ROM data on the >> initial boot, but not after a kexec. So it's worse in the sense that >> the kexec case doesn't match the initial boot, but at least it's not >> something that used to work and is now broken. > > I think I'd agree here - it's not ideal, but it's no more broken than > the current situation.
OK, I applied Seth's fix, added his Tested-by, and put this series in my -next branch. I plan to merge it during the v3.8 merge window next week.
Thanks!
Bjorn
| |