From: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/boot/compressed: Fix reloading of GDTR post-relocation
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:03:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200227180305.GA3598722@rani.riverdale.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu-k0c8GzKysv4Z9tYzEvfhJUzuiKx5nfwD0JU8ys=LZdg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 06:47:55PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Interesting. I am going to rip most of the EFI handover protocol stuff
> out of OVMF, since it is mostly unnecessary, and having the PE/COFF
> loader put the image in the correct place right away is a nice
> complimentary improvement to that. (Note that the OVMF implementation
> of the EFI handover protocol does not currently honor the preferred
> address from the setup header anyway)
Yeah, for my testing I'm running the image from the EFI shell, which
enters via PE entry point and honors the pref address.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-27 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 13:38 [GIT PULL v2] EFI updates for v5.7 Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-26 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-02-26 14:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-26 20:45 ` [PATCH 0/1] Small fix to boot-time GDT handling Arvind Sankar
2020-02-26 23:00 ` [PATCH v2 " Arvind Sankar
2020-02-26 23:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/boot/compressed: Fix reloading of GDTR post-relocation Arvind Sankar
2020-02-27 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-02-27 15:16 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-27 15:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-27 15:54 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-27 17:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-27 18:03 ` Arvind Sankar [this message]
2020-02-29 9:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-02-29 16:50 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-26 20:45 ` [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot/compressed/32: " Arvind Sankar
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