Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:26:01AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> NAK on this bit:
> 
> +       if (boot_params.hdr.version < 0x0209)
> +               return 0;
> 
> This field is kernel->bootloader documentation.  If a nonmaching
> value somehow leaks into the kernel, the kernel could either
> panic("Bootloader written by moron") or it should clear some fields,
> but littering the kernel with these kinds of tests is just plain
> braindead.

Dropping that should be fine. Bjorn, would you prefer a patch from me to 
do that?

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