On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 04:47:51PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > The EFI stub already sets the hidden visibility attribute for the few > external symbol references that it contains, so it is not needed in > the context of this series. > > In the future, we can revisit this if we want to get rid of the > various __pure getter functions, but that requires thorough testing on > other architectures and toolchains, so I'd prefer to leave that for > later. We don't need it for the stub right now, but then this bit in the cover letter is not yet true, we still need to be careful about libstub code. > ...we can start using ordinary external symbol references in the EFI > stub without running the risk of boot regressions.
