Re: [PATCH] x86/EFI: additional checks in efi_bgrt_init()

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On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:48:52PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:

> On my system, the table points to EfiReservedMemoryType
> and appears to have valid data despite the valid flag being
> clear. But before encoding the invalidation into Xen in a form
> other than clearing the valid bit, I'd really like to get
> confirmation that e.g. clearing the image address is indeed a
> "proper" thing to do. If no-one among you can "officially" tell
> what the intentions here are, would you know who can?

If you don't want to provide it at all, just don't provide a BGRT. 
Microsoft wrote that bit of the ACPI spec, so you'd probably need to ask 
them what their intentions were.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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