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Re: [PATCH] bring initial context to a known state


From: Marcin Kurek
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bring initial context to a known state
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:01:44 +0200

Hell[o]

> When GRUB starts initial_context is in an unknown state.  This can lead to
> GRUB detecting bogus variables from it.  Attached patch zeroes that struct
> during initialisation to avoid that.

This change broken command line argument handling for ieee1275.
Arguments are read by grub_machine_init() in this case and zeroing is
done just after that.

I guess it should be placed before grub_machine_init() to avoid this problem.

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--- Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek ---




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