Re: arm64: pseudo NMI bootconfig question

From: Google

Date: Fri Mar 20 2026 - 00:03:28 EST


On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:20:27 -0700
Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > 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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