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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 2/5] efi/libstub: Reserve confidential computing secret area
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On 02/02/2022 10:41, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:44:10PM +0000, Dov Murik wrote:
>> Some older firmware declare the confidential computing secret area as
>> EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA region. Fix this up by treating this memory
>> region as EFI_RESERVED_TYPE, as it should be.
>>
>> If that memory region is already EFI_RESERVED_TYPE then this has no
>> effect on the E820 map.
>
> Hmm, sure we actually want merge this? I suspect by the time this
> landed in an upstream kernel "older firmware" isn't much of a problem
> any more.
>

When we originally wrote this patch the OVMF fix was not yet upstream
(and currently it is still not part of an official edk2 stable tag/release).

But I agree that as time goes by, the need for this fix is diminishing.

I'll consider dropping this patch entirely in the next round.

Thanks,
-Dov

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