On 28 October 2014 17:18, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Version v2 of arm64/efi patches for 3.19. > Changes since previous version: > - dropped patch #6 'arm64/efi: use UEFI memory map unconditionally if available' > (will be revisited later, but due to other changes in the pipeline regarding > the virtual mapping of UEFI Runtime Services, it makes sense to defer this > to 3.20) > - added patch #10 'efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence' > > Note that Matt Fleming has given his approval for taking all of these through > the arm64 tree. > > @Matt: may we have your ack on patches #6, #7 and #10 please? Patch #7 covers > DMI not EFI but get_maintainer.pl is not very helpful here. (The patch is cc'ed > to akpm and Tony Luck [ia64 maintainer]) > > Patches #1 - #3 are fixes for compliance with the UEFI and PE/COFF specs. > No issues are known that require these patches, so there is no reason to > pull them into a stable release. > > Patch #4 fixes is_reserve_region() to correctly identify UEFI memory regions > that need to be reserved by the OS. This patch supersedes the patch sent as > part of the v1 series: 'arm64/efi: reserve regions of type ACPI_MEMORY_NVS' > > Patch #5 removes a redundant set_bit(EFI_CONFIG_TABLES) call. > > Patches #6 - #9 implement DMI/SMBIOS for arm64, both the existing 32-bit > version and the upcoming 3.0 version that allows the SMBIOS structure table > to reside at a physical offset that cannot be encoded in 32-bits. It also > installs a 'Hardware name: xxx' string that is printed along with oopses > and kernel call stack dumps on systems that implement DMI/SMBIOS. > > Patch #10 is a patch from Mark Rutland I picked up that improves the > diagnostic output of the EFI stub regarding the origin of the device > tree blob. > > Please refer to the patches themselves for version history. Acks and/or > comments appreciated. > OK, it appears we're good to go with this series. @Will: would you like me to repost one final time? Or would you prefer a pull request instead? The only changes are added acks and a single code change where an open-coded constant 127 is replaced with its symbolic name DMI_ENTRY_END_OF_TABLE. Regards, Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
