Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Because it also needs to modify it.  Right now kexec userspace
>synthesizes struct boot_params from scratch, and does so incorrectly to
>boot.  I think we have setup_data exported via debugfs but IIRC we
>never
>got a strong enough use case for sysfs.

Kexec userspace needs updating every time we add functionality to setup_data? That really doesn't sound ideal. If we want to be able to pass secrets between kernels then this needs to be done in kernel space, not userland. 

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