[PATCH] arm64/efi: remove spurious WARN_ON for !4K kernels

Matt Fleming matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Mon May 30 14:12:12 PDT 2016


On Wed, 25 May, at 04:11:56PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
> No further restriction on alignment is provided in the UEFI
> specification, neither generically nor in a rule specific to AArch64.
 
This surprises me. I could have sworn the intention was to add this
restriction to the spec when the strict permissions were being
discussed in the UEFI working groups.

Am I reinventing history?

As an aside, Mark, Jeremy, which machines did you see this warning
triggered on? Preproduction/development boards or also in the wild?



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