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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org,
	Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fail and log if kernel lock down is enabled
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 11:52:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180515115232.5648f749@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180515165612.61243-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

On Tue, 15 May 2018 17:56:12 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> When EFI secure boot is enabled, it is possible to lock down kernel and
> prevent accessing device BARs and this makes igb_uio unusable.

This distro specific (and not upstream) stuff in igb_uio is getting
to be a significantly ugly. Can this be detected by seeing if one
of the calls (such setup bars) failing?

The best long term solution would be getting all kernel modules upstream;
but it looks like that will never happen due to UIO maintainer resistance.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-15 16:56 Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-15 17:47 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-05-16  9:45   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-16  9:56     ` Luca Boccassi
2018-05-15 18:52 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-05-16  9:53   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-16 10:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-16 10:50   ` Luca Boccassi
2018-05-16 14:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-17 11:34     ` Neil Horman
2018-05-17 13:26       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-17 18:16         ` Neil Horman
2018-06-27 14:39     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-06-29  7:04     ` David Marchand
2018-06-29  9:35       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-16 11:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Neil Horman
2018-05-17 13:23   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-05-17 14:39     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-05-17 19:49       ` Neil Horman
2018-05-22 15:23         ` Ferruh Yigit

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