On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 12:02 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 11:57, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > or SetVirtualAddressMap/ConvertPointer, and > > > > These two are RTS, so in principal it could. > > > > (I'm not sure about ConvertPointer, is it useful for OS kernels, or > > just > > for "UEFI components" mentioned at > > http://wiki.phoenix.com/wiki/index.php/E > > FI_RUNTIME_SERVICES#ConvertPointer.28.29 ?) > > > > No, there is no point. The stub calls SetVirtualAddressMap, so the > kernel proper can never call it, since it can only be called once. I see. And changing this such that it was delayed until the kernel proper would be a _major_ shift in the policy of separation between the UEFI stub and the kernel proper. > ConvertPointer has little utility outside of the UEFI runtime > components that are invoked during SetVirtualAddressMap, That's the impression I was getting too. Thanks for confirming. > so I don't see a reason to supply that either. Ack. Ian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
