Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] efi/bgrt: Drop __initdata from bgrt_image_size

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On 2 July 2018 at 13:57, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, July 02, 2018 01:46:09 PM Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 2 July 2018 at 13:26, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Bartlomiej,
>> >
>> > Now that the fbcon deferred console takeover patches have been
>> > merged I believe this series can be merged too ?
>> >
>> > Note the first patch has an ack from Ard for merging the
>> > 1 line efi change through the fbdev tree.
>> >
>>
>> ... or I could take everything through the efi tree instead, as
>> already discussed between Bartlomiej and me in the context of another
>> patch series that touches both the fbdev and efi trees.
>>
>> Bartlomiej, that would require your ack on patch
>>
>> [PATCH v2 2/2] efifb: Copy the ACPI BGRT boot graphics to the framebuffer
>>
>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-fbdev&m=152933484616993&w=2
>>
>> so if you're ok with that, I will queue both of these for v4.19
>
> I would really prefer to merge this patchset through fbdev tree
> as efi tree doesn't have fbcon deferred console takeover patches
> (which are required by efifb changes under discussion).
>

Ah ok, I didn't realise that. I don't think there will be any
conflicts, since the efifb changes in the efi tree and these changes
operate on different parts of the file. But let's double check before
taking stuff into -next.
(efi/next is not pulled into -next directly, but via the tip:efi tree,
and I haven't sent a pull request yet for v4.19)


>> > On 18-06-18 17:13, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> >>
>> >> bgrt_image_size is necessary to (optionally) show the boot graphics from
>> >> the efifb code. The efifb driver is a platform driver, using a normal
>> >> driver probe() driver callback. So even though it is always builtin it
>> >> cannot reference __initdata.
>> >>
>> >> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>   drivers/firmware/efi/efi-bgrt.c | 2 +-
>> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-bgrt.c
>> >> b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-bgrt.c
>> >> index 50793fda7819..b22ccfb0c991 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-bgrt.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-bgrt.c
>> >> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
>> >>   #include <linux/efi-bgrt.h>
>> >>     struct acpi_table_bgrt bgrt_tab;
>> >> -size_t __initdata bgrt_image_size;
>> >> +size_t bgrt_image_size;
>> >>     struct bmp_header {
>> >>         u16 id;
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
>
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