From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] efi/x86: add support for generic EFI mixed mode boot
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:36:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu9Azn9oGHaTqv+-Foj4=b5Y-JradERq4NC5V9XOaVjSKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213184752.GA1424509@rani.riverdale.lan>
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 19:47, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:55:44PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 18:53, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > As an alternative to the new section, how about having a CONFIG option
> > > to emit the 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit PE header instead, which would
> > > point to efi32_pe_entry? In that case it could be directly loaded by
> > > existing firmware already. You could even have a tool that can mangle an
> > > existing bzImage's header from 64-bit to 32-bit, say using the newly
> > > added kernel_info structure to record the existence and location of
> > > efi32_pe_entry.
> > >
> >
> > That wouldn't work with, say, signed distro kernels.
>
> No, the idea would be that the distro would distribute two signed
> images, one 32-bit and one 64-bit, which are identical except for the
> header. At install time, the installer chooses based on the system's
> firmware bit-ness.
>
I guess it would be possible, but then we'd need two different images
while today, we can run the same image on both kinds of firmwares. The
only thing I am trying to do is remove all the quirky bootparams stuff
from the loader so that we can switch to LoadImage
> >
> > > Also, the PE header can live anywhere inside the image, right? Is there
> > > any reason to struggle to shoehorn it into the "boot sector"?
> >
> > It cannot. It must live outside a region described by the section headers.
>
> It could still be inserted after .setup, or at the very end of the file, no?
The PE/COFF spec mentions that the COFF header needs to follow the
signature. Also, the SizeOfHeaders field would become somewhat
ambiguous if the header is split up like that.
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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] efi/x86: add support for generic EFI mixed mode boot
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:36:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu9Azn9oGHaTqv+-Foj4=b5Y-JradERq4NC5V9XOaVjSKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213184752.GA1424509@rani.riverdale.lan>
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 19:47, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:55:44PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 18:53, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > As an alternative to the new section, how about having a CONFIG option
> > > to emit the 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit PE header instead, which would
> > > point to efi32_pe_entry? In that case it could be directly loaded by
> > > existing firmware already. You could even have a tool that can mangle an
> > > existing bzImage's header from 64-bit to 32-bit, say using the newly
> > > added kernel_info structure to record the existence and location of
> > > efi32_pe_entry.
> > >
> >
> > That wouldn't work with, say, signed distro kernels.
>
> No, the idea would be that the distro would distribute two signed
> images, one 32-bit and one 64-bit, which are identical except for the
> header. At install time, the installer chooses based on the system's
> firmware bit-ness.
>
I guess it would be possible, but then we'd need two different images
while today, we can run the same image on both kinds of firmwares. The
only thing I am trying to do is remove all the quirky bootparams stuff
from the loader so that we can switch to LoadImage
> >
> > > Also, the PE header can live anywhere inside the image, right? Is there
> > > any reason to struggle to shoehorn it into the "boot sector"?
> >
> > It cannot. It must live outside a region described by the section headers.
>
> It could still be inserted after .setup, or at the very end of the file, no?
The PE/COFF spec mentions that the COFF header needs to follow the
signature. Also, the SizeOfHeaders field would become somewhat
ambiguous if the header is split up like that.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-13 14:59 [RFC PATCH 0/3] efi/x86: add support for generic EFI mixed mode boot Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: drop redundant .bss section Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] efi/x86: add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 16:59 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 16:59 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 17:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 17:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] efi/x86: implement mixed mode boot without the handover protocol Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 14:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 17:23 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 17:23 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 17:42 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 17:42 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 17:53 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] efi/x86: add support for generic EFI mixed mode boot Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 17:53 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 17:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 17:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-13 18:47 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 18:47 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-13 22:36 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2020-02-13 22:36 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-14 0:10 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-14 0:10 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-14 0:12 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-14 0:12 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-14 0:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-14 0:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-14 0:38 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-14 0:38 ` Arvind Sankar
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