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Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug command line parameter

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On Wed, 26 Aug, at 02:24:57PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> Now that we have an efi=debug command line option in the core code, use
> this instead of the arm64-specific uefi_debug option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/arm/uefi.txt |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c    | 19 +++++--------------
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Are there no concerns with backwards-compatibility here? I expected
this patch to internally convert uefi_debug to efi=debug if old boot
loaders, kernel config, etc specify it.

Is that something that can be safely ignored?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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[PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug command line parameter Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> - 2015-08-26 15:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug  command line parameter Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-08-26 19:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug  command line parameter Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> - 2015-08-26 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug  command line parameter Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-08-26 20:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug  command line parameter Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-08-28 15:40 +0200

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