[PATCH 02/16] Add system pointer argument to shared EFI stub related functions so they no longer use global system table pointer as they did when part of eboot.c. This code is now shared, so using a global variable as part of the interface is not that nice. Also, by avoiding any global variables in the ARM EFI stub, this allows the code to be position independent without requiring GOT fixups.

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Tue Aug 13 09:56:29 EDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c       |   38 +++++++------
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c |   96 +++++++++++++++++---------------
>  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

Tested on arm64.

Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>





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