Re: Xen 4.14.0 fails on Dell IoT Gateway without efi=no-rs

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 9:35 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

As far as making cases like this work by default, I'm afraid it'll
need to be proposed to replace me as the maintainer of EFI code in
Xen. I will remain on the position that it is not acceptable to
apply workarounds for firmware issues by default unless they're
entirely benign to spec-conforming systems. DMI data based enabling
of workarounds, for example, is acceptable in the common case, as
long as the matching pattern isn't unreasonably wide.

It sort of sounds like it would be useful to have a wider discussion on this then, to hash out what exactly it is we want to do as a project.

 -George