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From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: avoid error message when booting under Xen
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:38:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4e60a2f-e761-d9ad-88ad-fe041109c063@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXGE52Y6QQhGLU6r_9x6TVftZqfS7zyLCiDusZhV4tbhjg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10.07.20 15:27, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 13:17, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> [ added EFI Maintainer & ML to Cc: ]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 7/9/20 11:17 AM, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>>> On 28.06.20 10:50, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>>>> Ping?
>>>>
>>>> On 10.06.20 16:10, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>>> efifb_probe() will issue an error message in case the kernel is booted
>>>>> as Xen dom0 from UEFI as EFI_MEMMAP won't be set in this case. Avoid
>>>>> that message by calling efi_mem_desc_lookup() only if EFI_PARAVIRT
>>>>> isn't set.
>>>>>
> 
> Why not test for EFI_MEMMAP instead of EFI_BOOT?

Honestly I'm not sure EFI_BOOT is always set in that case. If you tell
me it is fine to just replace the test to check for EFI_MEMMAP I'm fine
to modify my patch.


Juergen

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-10 14:10 [PATCH] efi: avoid error message when booting under Xen Juergen Gross
2020-06-28  8:50 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-07-09  9:17   ` Jürgen Groß
2020-07-10 10:16     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2020-07-10 13:27       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-10 13:38         ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2020-07-10 13:41           ` Ard Biesheuvel

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