Re: [PATCH v1] efi: make sure EFI disk controllers are connected when discovering devices

2022-02-11 Thread Renaud Métrich
Le 2/10/22 à 15:53, Ard Biesheuvel a écrit : Hello all, Please don't top post. I am not going to rearrange the text below and just reply to each chunk if it seems relevant. On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 14:02, Alexander Graf wrote: On 09.02.22 18:20, Renaud Métrich wrote: Hi, I observed no slowd

Re: [PATCH v1] efi: make sure EFI disk controllers are connected when discovering devices

2022-02-10 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Hello all, Please don't top post. I am not going to rearrange the text below and just reply to each chunk if it seems relevant. On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 14:02, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > On 09.02.22 18:20, Renaud Métrich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I observed no slowdown at all with the new code. > >

Re: [PATCH v1] efi: make sure EFI disk controllers are connected when discovering devices

2022-02-10 Thread Alexander Graf
On 09.02.22 18:20, Renaud Métrich wrote: Hi, I observed no slowdown at all with the new code. I was thinking of the same, i.e. trying to find the device and perform a discovery if not found but there is some sort of caching mechanism inside Grub regarding devices which prevents Grub from wor

Re: [PATCH v1] efi: make sure EFI disk controllers are connected when discovering devices

2022-02-09 Thread Renaud Métrich
Hi, I observed no slowdown at all with the new code. I was thinking of the same, i.e. trying to find the device and perform a discovery if not found but there is some sort of caching mechanism inside Grub regarding devices which prevents Grub from working at all if the device list already hav

Re: [PATCH v1] efi: make sure EFI disk controllers are connected when discovering devices

2022-02-09 Thread Alexander Graf
On 08.02.22 11:56, Renaud Métrich wrote: When efi.quickboot is enabled on VMWare (which is the default for hardware release 16 and later), it may happen that not all EFI devices are connected. Due to this, browsing the devices in make_devices() just fails to find devices, in particular partition

[PATCH v1] efi: make sure EFI disk controllers are connected when discovering devices

2022-02-08 Thread Renaud Métrich
When efi.quickboot is enabled on VMWare (which is the default for hardware release 16 and later), it may happen that not all EFI devices are connected. Due to this, browsing the devices in make_devices() just fails to find devices, in particular partitions for a given disk. This typically happens w