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efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check
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Before proceeding with relocating the kernel and parsing the command line,
insert a call to check_platform_features() to allow an arch specific check
to be performed whether the current kernel can execute on the current
hardware.

Tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455712566-16727-11-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored and Ingo Molnar committed Feb 22, 2016
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
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Expand Up @@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ unsigned long efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,

pr_efi(sys_table, "Booting Linux Kernel...\n");

status = check_platform_features(sys_table);
if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
goto fail;

/*
* Get a handle to the loaded image protocol. This is used to get
* information about the running image, such as size and the command
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
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Expand Up @@ -53,4 +53,6 @@ void efi_get_virtmap(efi_memory_desc_t *memory_map, unsigned long map_size,
unsigned long desc_size, efi_memory_desc_t *runtime_map,
int *count);

efi_status_t check_platform_features(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg);

#endif

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