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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>
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:01:21 +0000 (03:01 +0100)
commitd1b62d728f0fe9e47feb4affb3933db1187084c6
treef49e645af16c93cc223c9d57d85188221437980ctree | snapshot
parent5b12008e1521e29d3b9206a33511dbd72c047ff6commit | 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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