Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:43:30AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > Can we actually boot a 32 bit kernel on an EFI64 system? The last time > I tried on my Secure Boot SDV it wouldn't work; the problem is getting > someting in the transfer of control path to boot the processor back to > 32 bit mode

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/13/2013 12:02 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 11:52 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 08/13/2013 11:43 AM, James Bottomley wrote: >>> Can we actually boot a 32 bit kernel on an EFI64 system? The last time >>> I tried on my Secure Boot SDV it wouldn't work; the problem is

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 11:52 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/13/2013 11:43 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > Can we actually boot a 32 bit kernel on an EFI64 system? The last time > > I tried on my Secure Boot SDV it wouldn't work; the problem is getting > > someting in the transfer of control pa

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/13/2013 11:43 AM, James Bottomley wrote: >> James, does this address your concerns? > > You mean for globally enabling CONFIG_EFI on x86? not really for 32 > bit, you say above it's pretty much unusable; I'd prefer just to enable > it for 64 bit. As you said in your original post "since EF

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 11:30 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/09/2013 08:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 08/09/2013 08:32 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > >> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>> I would like to change the defaults for CONFIG_EFI and CONFIG_EFI_STUB > >>

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/09/2013 08:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/09/2013 08:32 AM, James Bottomley wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> I would like to change the defaults for CONFIG_EFI and CONFIG_EFI_STUB >>> to y. There is little reason to omit this since EFI now is a >>>

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/09/2013 08:32 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I would like to change the defaults for CONFIG_EFI and CONFIG_EFI_STUB >> to y. There is little reason to omit this since EFI now is a >> significant percentage of all systems. > > You did

Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I would like to change the defaults for CONFIG_EFI and CONFIG_EFI_STUB > to y. There is little reason to omit this since EFI now is a > significant percentage of all systems. You didn't actually attach the patch, but I presume this is for

RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

2013-08-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
I would like to change the defaults for CONFIG_EFI and CONFIG_EFI_STUB to y. There is little reason to omit this since EFI now is a significant percentage of all systems. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@