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

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Message-ID: <CAMj1kXGmqcTy7a8hTxRgeNpLT4tu_660Wx+o0FJbynB-a_ZsWA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:57:28 +0100
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 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

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 14:38, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Yes, thanks again for sending me that thing - it has been quite
useful. I bricked my mixed mode iMac24, but that thing is just too old
now anyway.

> 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.
>

Thanks. These changes are in -next now, so that give some more
coverage until the next merge window.