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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi/libstub: add support for loading the initrd from a device path
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:09:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecc0febc-b964-5754-580f-7514427a068d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9Z24GeqrqKhPJN+aAu8crSKvT0ZBeFL=0ik=z2Sd1FmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/06/20 23:35, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 18:26, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:

>> When booting via GRUB it will be GRUB knowing which initrd to load.
>>
> 
> Exactly, which is why GRUB will implement this protocol. That way, it
> does not have to touch the DT at all, or create a bootparams struct
> from setup data and inspect the various flags about placement,
> alignment, preferred addresses, etc.
> 
>> Please, indicate which software you expect to expose the initrd related
>> EFI_LOAD_FILE2_PROTOCOL.
>>
> 
> The primary use case is GRUB and other intermediate loaders, since it
> would remove any need for these components to know any such details.
> My aim is to make the next architecture that gets added to GRUB for
> EFI boot 100% generic.

Understood, thanks. It sounds plausible to me.

Laszlo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-06 14:03 [PATCH 0/2] arch-agnostic initrd loading method for EFI systems Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-06 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] efi/libstub: add support for loading the initrd from a device path Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-06 18:26   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-06 18:46     ` Ilias Apalodimas
2020-02-06 19:15       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-06 20:09         ` Ilias Apalodimas
2020-02-06 22:49           ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-07  7:35             ` Ilias Apalodimas
2020-02-06 22:35     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07  0:01       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-07  0:21         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07  0:57           ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-07  8:12             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 13:30               ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-07 13:58                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 14:18                   ` Alexander Graf
2020-02-07 15:30                     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 15:35                     ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-07 11:09       ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2020-02-07 11:03     ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-02-07  9:48   ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-02-07 12:36     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-10 14:26       ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-02-09  6:39   ` Lukas Wunner
2020-02-09 11:35     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-06 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] efi/libstub: take noinitrd cmdline argument into account for devpath initrd Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-06 18:33   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-02-06 23:44     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-12 16:01   ` Peter Jones
2020-02-07  9:09 ` [PATCH 0/2] arch-agnostic initrd loading method for EFI systems Laszlo Ersek
2020-02-07  9:22   ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-02-07 12:23     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 16:20       ` James Bottomley
2020-02-07 18:31         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 19:54           ` James Bottomley
2020-02-07 20:03             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 18:45 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-07 19:47   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-07 20:26     ` Arvind Sankar

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