Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:35:57AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > V3 just fixes all the casting issues and incorporates David's change in
> > search ordering.
> 
> I think there's still a section mismatch issue with these patches, so
> I haven't merged them yet.
> 
> I rebased my pci/mjg-pci-roms-from-efi branch to v3.7-rc2, and if we
> get this issue fixed I'll put it in -next as v3.8 material.

I still don't see this series in -next, so I take it the section
mismatch was never fixed? How about the following?

Thanks,
Seth


>From ece31852159a6b2cf9a059031638354e9817a6a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:55:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Don't discard boot_params

boot_params is now used at runtime on EFI systems to stash option ROMs
that aren't available after exiting boot services, so it can no longer
be marked __initdata.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 468e98d..6e13035 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -143,11 +143,7 @@ int default_check_phys_apicid_present(int phys_apicid)
 }
 #endif
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
-struct boot_params __initdata boot_params;
-#else
 struct boot_params boot_params;
-#endif
 
 /*
  * Machine setup..
-- 
1.7.9.5

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