linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid

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Message-ID: <20111107205859.GA28681@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:58:59 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address
 is invalid

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:57:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 12:48 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > If the kernel is able to call boot services then the kernel needs to be 
> > signed. If it's all handled by the bootloader then the bootloader can be 
> > signed and the kernel doesn't have to be. Depends which one people 
> > update more, I guess.
> > 
> 
> ... and what security attributes they are looking for.

Yup.

> However, "EFI stub in the kernel" doesn't mean "can't use an external
> bootloader."

Agreed. It just means that we're still plausibly going to need some 
handshaking between them. Alternatively, as long as the bootloader 
passes us the memory map, we can just ignore any E820 map it gives us 
anyway.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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