On 04/24/2014 03:50 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Ah, it sounds like boot_params.hdr.setup_data contains a series of
> e820-like entries chained together as a linked list? Which loaders
> currently populate that? Looks like EFI? Seems like
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c works on setup_data at least.
>
> I won't be in a position to test EFI booting for a while. If someone
> else took this, that would make it get fixed much faster.
>
> Do you have examples where this is actually causing failures?
>
> -Kees
Syslinux can populate it with arbitrary data; in particular Syslinux
uses it to pass FDT information if requested.
-hpa
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