On 2 October 2015 at 22:38, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 07:04:14PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> There are a number of prerequisites for this series that have all been >> sent to the linux-arm-kernel mailing list at some point (and mostly >> ignored). > > They've been ignored because they're UEFI and no one's said that it's > something that 32-bit ARM should get... until this series has come > along. It might help if Linaro was more engaging with developers who > aren't part of Linaro. > Actually, the first iteration of this series was sent out by Roy more than two years ago. But I am fully aware that these patches and the prerequisite series (plural) still need thorough review, I am just throwing this series out there early since it ties all of that together, so it puts the other stuff into context. > Now, I'm not going to suddenly drop what I'm working on to start trying > to gain an understanding of UEFI, and what its implications are for > 32-bit ARM so that I can reasonably review these patches - let me put > that another way: don't expect me to review this stuff quickly and > come out with review comments on something I have very ltitle clue > about. I have precisely zero UEFI knowledge. > I think the UEFI peculiarities are mostly covered by the common code shared with x86 and arm64. What I would appreciate your input on is the ARM specific thinks like early .data in the decompressor (even before the GOT fixups), the early_ioremap addition and the changes to create_mapping(). But no rush at all. Thanks, 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
