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Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] xen: reuse x86 EFI stub functions for Arm


  • To: Wei Chen <wei.chen@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 09:10:36 +0200
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On 23.05.2022 08:25, Wei Chen wrote:
> x86 is using compiler feature testing to decide EFI build
> enable or not. When EFI build is disabled, x86 will use an
> efi/stub.c file to replace efi/runtime.c for build objects.
> Following this idea, we introduce a stub file for Arm, but
> use CONFIG_ARM_EFI to decide EFI build enable or not.
> 
> And the most functions in x86 EFI stub.c can be reused for
> other architectures, like Arm. So we move them to common
> and keep the x86 specific function in x86/efi/stub.c.
> 
> To avoid the symbol link conflict error when linking common
> stub files to x86/efi. We add a regular file check in efi
> stub files' link script. Depends on this check we can bypass
> the link behaviors for existed stub files in x86/efi.
> 
> As there is no Arm specific EFI stub function for Arm in
> current stage, Arm still can use the existed symbol link
> method for EFI stub files.
> 
> Change-Id: Idf19db1ada609d05fc0c0c3b0e1e8687c9d6ac71
> Issue-Id: SCM-2240

I don't think these two lines belong in an upstream submission (I
checked patch 2 and at least there they are two similar lines).

> Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <wei.chen@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Jiamei Xie <jiamei.xie@xxxxxxx>

While I'm not really happy with the Arm side, it's only the other
parts which this is applicable to anyway (with the stray tags
dropped):
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Jan




 


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