Michael Niewöhner
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The current implementation copied the *complete* header to boot_params, thus making the kernel ignore many of the fields. As mentioned in the code comment for the sentinel variable in bootparam.h a bootloader should only copy the setup_header, set some fields in boot_params and zero out anything else. This change makes systemd-boot (mostly) compliant with the Linux Boot Protocol and the EFI Handover Protocol described in bootparam.h and Documentation/boot.txt to fix various issues: - Secure boot not being detected corretly by Linux (#11717) - tboot error message / warning on boot (#11717) - Strange purple text color when booting in qemu with OVMF - Hopefully even more ...
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