On 02/02/2022 10:41, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:44:10PM +0000, Dov Murik wrote: >> Some older firmware declare the confidential computing secret area as >> EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA region. Fix this up by treating this memory >> region as EFI_RESERVED_TYPE, as it should be. >> >> If that memory region is already EFI_RESERVED_TYPE then this has no >> effect on the E820 map. > > Hmm, sure we actually want merge this? I suspect by the time this > landed in an upstream kernel "older firmware" isn't much of a problem > any more. > When we originally wrote this patch the OVMF fix was not yet upstream (and currently it is still not part of an official edk2 stable tag/release). But I agree that as time goes by, the need for this fix is diminishing. I'll consider dropping this patch entirely in the next round. Thanks, -Dov
