Re: [RFC] efi/tpm: add efi.tpm_log as a reserved region in 820_table_firmware

From: Dave Young
Date: Fri Sep 13 2024 - 08:53:05 EST


Hi Usama,

> > Anyway I was not aware very much about the firmware e820 tables and
> > kexec tables when they were created. I suspect that a cleanup and
> > revisit is needed. I will have a look at that.
>
> Yes, I feel like there is one too many tables! From reading the code
> I understand that /sys/firmware/memmap should contain the untouched map
> at time of boot, i.e. e820_table_firmware. But I would be in favour of
> getting rid of e820_table_firmware, and just having e820_table_kexec.
> And /sys/firmware/memmap gets data from e820_table_kexec.

Agreed, I have the same feelings.

Thanks
Dave