Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] EFI: add EFI_LOAD_OPTION support

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 05.07.18 at 14:57, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/07/18 13:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 05.07.18 at 11:59, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 01:19:43AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> When booting Xen via UEFI the Xen config file can contain multiple
>>>> sections each describing different boot options. It is currently only
>>>> possible to choose which section to boot with if the buffer contains a
>>>> string. UEFI provides a different standard to pass optional arguments
>>>> to an application, and in this patch we make Xen properly parse this
>>>> buffer, thus making it possible to have separate EFI boot options
>>>> present for the different config sections.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Not sure why I'm CC'ed on this patch. Since you're the EFI maintainer, I
>>> don't think a tag is needed for you to commit this change.
>> Hmm, so far I was under the impression that the lack of a 2nd
>> maintainer meant an ack from THE REST would at the very least
>> be desirable.
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ideally, if Tamas can confirm that this patch works for him, that would
> be better.

Effectively he did in
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-05/msg01492.html
After that I've only added a few comments for the final v4.

Jan



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