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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] x86, efi: EFI boot stub config file support
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



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