Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 1/3] EFI/early: Add /noexit to inhibit calling ExitBootServices

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> 04/24/15 10:47 PM >>>
>The '/noexit' parameter will inhibit Xen in calling ExitBootServices.
>
>That helps with some platforms with GetNextVariableName which
>cannot deal running in 1-1 mode and having BootSevices being disabled.

It's unfortunate that this is the first rather than the last patch in the 
series, as this is
the one I'm not really comfortable applying - remaining in boot services is 
certainly
not a good thing to do, even less so with nevertheless handing all boot 
services code/
data to the allocator.

>@@ -762,6 +764,7 @@ efi_start(EFI_HANDLE ImageHandle, EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE 
>*SystemTable)
                 >{
                     >PrintStr(L"Xen EFI Loader options:\r\n");
                     >PrintStr(L"-basevideo   retain current video mode\r\n");
>+                    PrintStr(L"-noexit      Do not call 
>ExitBootServices\r\n");
                     >PrintStr(L"-cfg=<file>  specify configuration file\r\n");
                     >PrintStr(L"-help, -?    display this help\r\n");
                     
And independent of that please note that all existing option descriptions start 
with a
lower case letter.

Jan


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