On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 07:43:49AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 01:18:36PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:07:11PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > > > * Add the EFI Firmware Volume Protocol to include/linux/efi.h: > > > > https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/reference-guide/efi-firmware-file-volume-specification.pdf > > > > > > > > * Amend arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c to read the files with the > > > > GUIDs you're interested in into memory and pass the files to the > > > > kernel as setup_data payloads. > > > > To be honest, I'm a bit skeptical about the firmware volume approach. > > Tools like UEFITool[0] and uefi-firmware-parser[1] have existed for > > years, still don't seem to reliably parse firmware images I see in the > > wild, and have a fairly regular need for fixes. These are tools > > maintained by smart people who are making a real effort, and it still > > looks pretty hard to do a good job that applies across a lot of > > platforms. > > > > So I'd rather use Hans's existing patches, at least for now, and if > > someone is interested in hacking on making an efi firmware volume parser > > for the kernel, switch them to that when such a thing is ready. > > Hello? As I've written in the above-quoted e-mail the kernel should > read the files using EFI_FIRMWARE_VOLUME_PROTOCOL.ReadFile(). > > *Not* by parsing the firmware volume! > > Parsing the firmware volume is only necessary to find out the GUIDs > of the files you're looking for. You only do that *once*. How do you get the GUIDs for each driver BTW? Hans, I do believe we should *try* this approach at the very least. Why not? Otherwise it would be wise to provide a technical reason for why we'd choose one custom mechanism which would only serve a few tablets over a mechanism which could serve more devices. Luis -- 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
