Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 16 2013 - 09:09:05 EST



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

> No. Fixing one bootloader is almost impossible. Fixing them all is a
> Sisiphyean task.

It's a self inflicted wound really: if only we had a reference bootloader in the
kernel tree, which we could fix. The effort that went into fixing various
bootloader interactions would have been enough to write two new bootloaders from
scratch.

Thanks,

Ingo
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