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    SubjectRe: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services
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    "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

    >Because it also needs to modify it. Right now kexec userspace
    >synthesizes struct boot_params from scratch, and does so incorrectly to
    >boot. I think we have setup_data exported via debugfs but IIRC we
    >never
    >got a strong enough use case for sysfs.

    Kexec userspace needs updating every time we add functionality to setup_data? That really doesn't sound ideal. If we want to be able to pass secrets between kernels then this needs to be done in kernel space, not userland.

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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