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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>
Sun, 4 Jun 2017 02:03:01 +0000 (02:03 +0000)
commit8c284fb58ab7724662a9f2b53ff3f17502bdeb78
tree738443882908f2bc024421d6f373fc8337d9def6tree | snapshot
parent263e4699dfb96c3f96a065bff135047c66b40567commit | 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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