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Message-ID: <20121206185439.GA17381@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:54:39 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Subject: Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:26:01AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > NAK on this bit: > > + if (boot_params.hdr.version < 0x0209) > + return 0; > > This field is kernel->bootloader documentation. If a nonmaching > value somehow leaks into the kernel, the kernel could either > panic("Bootloader written by moron") or it should clear some fields, > but littering the kernel with these kinds of tests is just plain > braindead. Dropping that should be fine. Bjorn, would you prefer a patch from me to do that? -- 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/
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