[syslinux:firmware] efi: Delete EFI handover protocol check

syslinux-bot for Matt Fleming matt.fleming at intel.com
Mon Jan 7 12:51:09 PST 2013


Commit-ID:  c5f62920d2a8ffba0e9c3282403a8676c6073de5
Gitweb:     http://www.syslinux.org/commit/c5f62920d2a8ffba0e9c3282403a8676c6073de5
Author:     Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:39:12 +0000
Committer:  Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:40:18 +0000

efi: Delete EFI handover protocol check

We don't need to bail if the kernel we're trying to boot supports the
handover protocol even though we don't know how use it. We can simply
boot the kernel the old fashioned way until we grow the necessary
support.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>

---
 efi/main.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/efi/main.c b/efi/main.c
index 754cbc5..2ecf9f9 100644
--- a/efi/main.c
+++ b/efi/main.c
@@ -759,10 +759,6 @@ int efi_boot_linux(void *kernel_buf, size_t kernel_size,
 		printf("bzImage version 0x%x unsupported\n", hdr->version);
 		goto bail;
 	}
-	if (hdr->version >= 0x20b) {
-		printf("bzImage version 0x%x handover protocol unimplemented \n", hdr->version);
-		goto bail;
-	}
 
 	/* FIXME: check boot sector signature */
 	if (hdr->boot_flag != BOOT_SIGNATURE) {


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