Re: [PATCH 0/6] efi/x86: Avoid legacy decompressor during EFI boot

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 06:57:20PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S           |  55 ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S             |  24 --
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S             |  39 +--
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c                |  44 ++-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h                     |   2 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c |   4 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c        | 360 +++++++++++++-------
>  7 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 249 deletions(-)

Upon a quick scan, I can't argue with that diffstat and would prefer
a lot more if we did this instead of Evgeny's pile which touches a lot
of nasty and hard to debug code which gets executed on *everything*.

So if people agree with that approach, I'd gladly give it a more
detailed look.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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