arm64: pseudo NMI bootconfig question

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat at kernel.org
Thu Mar 19 21:03:16 PDT 2026


On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:20:27 -0700
Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org> wrote:

> hello Masami,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 02:37:22AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 01:34:03PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> >
> > Another possible solution would be to load bootconfig earlier in the
> > boot process so that early parameters can be defined within bootconfig.
> > Petr suggested this approach some time back, but it doesn't appear to
> > have made it upstream.
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231123194106.08f5832f558fe806b1fd8098@kernel.org/
> >
> > I'm not fully up to speed on the details of this change, so I want to
> > ask directly: Would Petr's approach—allowing early parameters to be set
> > via bootconfig make sense from a bootconfig design perspective?
> 
> Would it be worthwhile for me to take Petr's patch, update it to the
> current codebase, address any issues, and verify that it resolves the
> problem described above? If so, would you be open to reviewing and
> potentially accepting such a patch?

Hmm, let me recheck it. But the thread seems suspended.
Can you or Petr continue to work on this?

Thank you,

> 
> Thanks,
> --breno


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat at kernel.org>



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