linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86/efi/mixed: Decouple from legacy decompressor

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Message-ID: <2d4924d6-1ae3-4993-a6b0-aae6f00bab88@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:38:01 +0100
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86/efi/mixed: Decouple from legacy decompressor

Hi Ard,

On 20-Feb-25 1:54 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 13:48, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:29:30PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>> Unless anyone minds, I'd like to queue this up in the EFI tree.
>>>
>>> Boris, Ingo?
>>
>> FWIW, it looks like a nice cleanup to me and it boots in my 64-bit OVMF guest
>> but that doesn't mean a whole lot.
>>
> 
> Thanks. For the record, I tested this both on 32-bit OVMF and on a
> mixed mode tablet (with 32-bit AMI firmware) that I keep for testing
> purposes. Notably, 32-bit OVMF boots with paging (and PAE) enabled
> whereas the AMI firmware doesn't.

Ah good to know that you're still using the mixed-mode tablet
for testing.

I've just added this series to my personal kernel testing-tree which
I regularly boot on various models of these kinda tablets. I'll let
you know if I hit any problems.

> Not sure how many users of mixed mode remain

I think the 32 bit mixed-mode Intel Bay Trail tablets are still
somewhat popular I still get occasional inquiries about when we will
finally have the cameras working on them :)

Regards,

Hans