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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel
On 08/21/2012 07:39 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 14:59 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> From a quick glance with some grepping, efi reboot and efifb will
>>> also no longer work, is that intentional?
>>
>> That's the very point of this patch, the EFI services won't work since
>> there are no runtime services in this state, just boot time setup. If
>> efi_enabled is left on, the reboot will panic.
>
> But efifb should still work without EFI runtime services, no? I see this
> in setup_arch(),
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VT
> #if defined(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE)
> if (!efi_enabled || (efi_mem_type(0xa0000) != EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY))
> conswitchp = &vga_con;
> #elif defined(CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE)
> conswitchp = &dummy_con;
> #endif
> #endif
>
> but efi_enabled check looks bogus now that efi_enabled has come to mean
> "EFI services available?". If we've been passed the dimensions of the
> EFI framebuffer I'm unaware of a reason we can't use it.
>

Yes, this should be conditional on the parameters being available.
However, efi_mem_type() is probably also ill-defined in this case.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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