Re: [PATCH 0/2] EFI chainloader improvement

[Daniel Kiper]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:32:01PM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> This series improves the EFI chainloader. I've noticed for a while now that
> chainloading would fail when root=memdisk. It didn't really make sense because
> I was specifying the image to chainload as device+path, so why would it care
> about what my root was. But I noticed that if I changed the root to the device
> the image file was located on, then chainloading worked. The second patch
> fixes this by removing some previous assumptions that I don't believe are
> valid (eg. that LoadImage needs a valid device path).
>
> Glenn
>
> Glenn Washburn (2):
>   efi/chainloader: Do not require a valid $root when chainloading
>   docs: Document that extra arguments to chainloader on EFI

The patch set LGTM. Sadly it does not apply due to significant changes
in the EFI code. Could you rebase it on top of [1].

Daniel

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-05/msg00147.html