[PATCH v2 2/3] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support

[Matt Fleming]

On Thu, 03 Oct, at 12:24:40PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> +/*
> + * If you need to (temporarily) support buggy firmware.
> + */
> +#define KEEP_BOOT_SERVICES_REGIONS

Have you seen firmware that requires this? I'm just curious more than
anything else.

> +/*
> + * Returns 1 if 'facility' is enabled, 0 otherwise.
> + */
> +int efi_enabled(int facility)
> +{
> +	return test_bit(facility, &arm_efi_facility) != 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(efi_enabled);

This should move to drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c. Let me write a patch
that moves the x86 stuff out of arch/x86 and means you can get rid of
this hunk.

> +/*
> + * Called explicitly from init/mm.c
> + */

That's init/main.c.

> +void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> +{
> +	efi_status_t status;
> +
> +	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT)) {
> +		pr_info("EFI services will not be available.\n");
> +		return;

This is dead code as PATCH 3 does,

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index af310af..ec6d76e 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -875,6 +875,10 @@ static noinline void __init
kernel_init_freeable(void)
	smp_prepare_cpus(setup_max_cpus);

	do_pre_smp_initcalls();
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM) && efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
+		efi_enter_virtual_mode();
+


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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center