Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

[Matthew Garrett]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I don't think there is anything security-sensitive about that
>information, at least not to root.  I could be wrong, of course; I
>wouldn't mind security people telling me about that.

I don't think there's anything at present, but we'll want to pass the hibernation encryption key from the bootloader to the kernel in the near future. setup_data seems like the easiest way to do that. 

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