Re: [PATCHv7 00/14] mm, x86/cc: Implement support for unaccepted memory

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Jul 21 2022 - 13:14:13 EST


On 7/19/22 17:26, Marc Orr wrote:
> - Dave's suggestion to "2. Boot some intermediate thing like a
> bootloader that does acceptance ..." is pretty clever! So if upstream
> thinks this FW-kernel negotiation is not a good direction, maybe we
> (Google) can pursue this idea to avoid introducing yet another tag on
> our images.

I'm obviously speaking only for myself here and not for "upstream" as a
whole, but I clearly don't like the FW/kernel negotiation thing. It's a
permanent pain in our necks to solve a very temporary problem.