On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:28:49PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > load image protocol. In that case the sub should override the setting in
> the
> > > FDT if the initrd argument is present.
> >
> > Hmm, well, it's slightly worse than that - it will have one; only it
> > will be GRUB's command lin
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:05:04PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Handling the 2 cases is not a problem. I just don't want to handle
> > 'mixed' cases where
> > a command line and an FDT are passed to the stub, and information from
> > both is used.
> >
> > As I understand it, the two cases are:
>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Leif Lindholm
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:16:08PM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
>> >> So ... I guess that would modify the stub behaviour to:
>> >> - Look for an FDT_GUID configuration table.
>> >> - If there, use it.
>> >> - If not there, require one to be load
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:16:08PM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> >> So ... I guess that would modify the stub behaviour to:
> >> - Look for an FDT_GUID configuration table.
> >> - If there, use it.
> >> - If not there, require one to be loaded based on command line.
> >
> > Create a mostly empty one fo
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 07:27:58PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> > So ... I guess that would modify the stub behaviour to:
> > - Look for an FDT_GUID configuration table.
> > - If there, use it.
> > - If not there, require one to be loaded based on command line.
>
> Create a mostly empty one for pa
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Leif Lindholm
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 08:05:59AM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
>>> > I was thinking that the stub would want to use the FDT passed by grub
>>> > if one is passed, but I hadn't thought a
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 08:05:59AM -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> > I was thinking that the stub would want to use the FDT passed by grub
> > if one is passed, but I hadn't thought about the case where grub wants
> > to pass information to the stub, but the stub still loads the FDT. The
> > easiest thin
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Leif Lindholm
> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been looking at the patches Matthew Garrett wrote for loading a
>> UEFI stub kernel through GRUB, and noticed one thing that may require
>> updates to the stub co
Hi guys,
I've been looking at the patches Matthew Garrett wrote for loading a
UEFI stub kernel through GRUB, and noticed one thing that may require
updates to the stub code: it uses GRUB to load the initrd.
Doing this of course means the initrd does not need to go into the EFI
System Partition, wh
