While the general `quiet` kernel parameter is available to silence
output from the efistub, setting this comes with side-effects.
This patch adds a parameter efi=quiet to selectively set the loglevel
for the stub alone to quiet, as the polar oppoosite to efi=debug.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik 'T4cC0re' Meyer <linux@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 ++-
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 3872bc6ec..94a2f6ae7 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@
efi= [EFI,EARLY]
Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
"nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
- "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
+ "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma", "quiet" }
debug: enable misc debug output.
disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
@@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@
novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
+ quiet: disable most log messages.
efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
index c0c81ca42..b8ad629cc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ efi_status_t efi_parse_options(char const *cmdline)
efi_disable_pci_dma = false;
if (parse_option_str(val, "debug"))
efi_loglevel = CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEBUG;
+ if (parse_option_str(val, "quiet"))
+ efi_loglevel = CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET;
} else if (!strcmp(param, "video") &&
val && strstarts(val, "efifb:")) {
efi_parse_option_graphics(val + strlen("efifb:"));
--
2.47.1
