Re: [ 105/128] efi: Make efi_enabled a function to query EFIfacilities

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Feb 05 2013 - 23:46:00 EST


On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 10:20 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:44:25PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 16:15 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > As you can see this needed quite a lot of work to backport, and I
> > > haven't been able to test it yet. So I would particularly appreciate
> > > careful review of this.
> >
> > Everything looks fine to me but I haven't actually booted with these
> > changes.
>
> I didn't backport this to the 3.4 kernel, as I didn't think it really
> was necessary, but now that Ben did all of the hard work, I'll see if
> his version applies there, as it would be good to solve this issue for
> that kernel release. Thanks for verifying that this work at least looks
> sane.

No, my backporting work for 3.2 is not applicable and not needed on 3.4.
I think you just need to adjust context in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c and
init/main.c.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

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