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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, 12 Jan 2017 15:52:37 +0000 (15:52 +0000)
commita2abbda287c0fae99aec921f438d982dbbf04f22
tree146b764c2b77a75242cbd7de237d646bbb2e334ctree | snapshot
parentd013d299a336d0adb67eb4cfe1c6ee2f18c16a50commit | 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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