Re: [PATCHv7 05/14] x86/boot: Add infrastructure required for unaccepted memory support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jul 17 2022 - 13:16:47 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 06:05:34PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> It also sounds painfully similar to uapi/ project. I'm not sure we want to
> go this path.

It is the same path perf tool is taking - see first paragraph:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/YtQM40VmiLTkPND2@xxxxxxxxxx

I don't want to deal with the regular breakages or hacks to
boot/compressed/ just because little duplication. We copy the header
once and that's it - it doesn't even have to get updated like perf tool
does from time to time.

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