Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 13:54:38 EST


On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:26:01AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> NAK on this bit:
>
> + if (boot_params.hdr.version < 0x0209)
> + return 0;
>
> This field is kernel->bootloader documentation. If a nonmaching
> value somehow leaks into the kernel, the kernel could either
> panic("Bootloader written by moron") or it should clear some fields,
> but littering the kernel with these kinds of tests is just plain
> braindead.

Dropping that should be fine. Bjorn, would you prefer a patch from me to
do that?

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