lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:07:49 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:56:56PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:

> Thanks a lot for diagnosing this, Maarten! The copy of grub that I have
> (fedora's version) looks like it uses the disk_io protocol to read from
> disks, I wonder if there's a reason for this. I Cc'd Peter Jones in case
> he's seen anything like this before.

grub needs to be able to read files off filesystems that may not be 
supported by the UEFI implementation, so has its own filesystem drivers 
that use disk_io.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ