Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>And that presumably would be something that cannot be exposed to root?
>If so we may want to use one of the bits in the setup_data type field
>as
>a security flag, perhaps...

Yeah, it needs to be hidden from root - but ideally we'd be passing it to the second kernel if we kexec. Alternative would be for it to be capability bounded to a trusted signed kexec binary if we implement Vivek's IMA-based approach. 

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