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PCI: Set pci=nobios by default
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 02:45:42 +0000 (02:45 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:16:33 +0000 (01:16 +0000)
commit2d57ae5b347eef8093737acbd642a79097a79688
tree8ce049b117f6606e0b55d0b5fc2d559a94c3fb8ctree | snapshot
parentd5be45f14a03d7516abf33e3466783761fcda28ccommit | diff
PCI: Set pci=nobios by default

CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS results in physical addresses 640KB-1MB being mapped
W+X, which is undesirable for security reasons and will result in a
warning at boot now that we enable CONFIG_DEBUG_WX.

This can be overridden using the kernel parameter "pci=nobios", but we
want to disable W+X by default.  Disable PCI BIOS probing by default;
it can still be enabled using "pci=bios".

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name i386-686-pae-pci-set-pci-nobios-by-default.patch
arch/x86/pci/common.c diff | blob | history
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