Re: [PATCH 13/19] efi/libstub: Move get_dram_base() into arm-stub.c

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On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 00:35, Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 09:37 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 02:17, Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@xxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-02-10 at 17:02 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > > get_dram_base() is only called from arm-stub.c so move it into
> > > > the same source file as its caller.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just FYI: riscv efi stub port is also going to use get_dram_base().
> > > However, I have renamed arm-stub.c to generic efi-stub.c so that
> > > arm,
> > > arm64 and riscv can reuse it. Thus, Moving get_dram_base() into
> > > arm-
> > > stub.c works for riscv as well. I will rebase my patches on top of
> > > this
> > > series.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Atish. I was hoping it would turn out like this, which is why
> > I
> > am pushing this series now.
> >
> > I haven't looked at your code yet, but please avoid using the command
> > line based initrd/dtb loading routines. I am proposing a cleaner way
> > to provide the initrd from firmware [0], and dtb loading by the stub
> > should not be done in the first place.
> >
> > [0]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20200216141104.21477-1-ardb@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Sorry I missed this email earlier. Yes I am not using initrd or dtb
> loading from U-Boot command line.
>

If you use arm-stub.c mostly unmodified, you will be using initrd=
command line loading, and it would be better to disable that, and only
enable it if there is a request for it (which I doubt will happen).



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