Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] ArmVirtPkg: Allow EFI memory attributes protocol to be disabled

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 11:53 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > So let's introduce a QEMU command line option to indicate that the
> > protocol should not be exposed at all.
> >
> >   -fw_cfg opt/org.tianocore/DisableMemAttrProtocol,string=y
>
> Can we name this 'MemAttrProtocol={y,n}' so it works both ways (enabling
> and disabling) without double negative?
>

Sure, but with the same behavior, right?

=y means it will get installed
=n means it will get installed and uninstalled again

> The fedora distro builds have the protocol disabled, and I'll keep it
> that way until we finally have fixed shim.efi builds.  Having the option
> to enable this would be nice though.
>

So how did you disable the protocol? That part is not upstream afaik.

We can disable the protocol via this method but how would you set it
to =n by default?


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