Re: [GIT PULL v2] EFI updates for v5.7

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* Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Ingo, Thomas,
> 
> I am sending this as an ordinary PR again, given the size. Please let me
> know if instead, you prefer me to send it out piecemeal as usual. Either
> works for me, I was just reluctant to spam people unsolicited.
> 
> Note that EFI for RISC-V may still arrive this cycle as well. 
> 
> Please take special note of the GDT changes by Arvind. They were posted to
> the list without any feedback, and they look fine to me, but I know very
> little about these x86 CPU low level details.
> 
> This was all build and boot tested on various different kinds of hardware,
> and all minor issues that were reported by the robots were fixed along the way.
> 
> Please pull,
> Ard.
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit bb6d3fb354c5ee8d6bde2d576eb7220ea09862b9:
> 
>   Linux 5.6-rc1 (2020-02-09 16:08:48 -0800)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git tags/efi-next
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to dc235d62fc60a6549238eda7ff29769457fe5663:
> 
>   efi: Bump the Linux EFI stub major version number to #1 (2020-02-23 21:59:42 +0100)

>  66 files changed, 2718 insertions(+), 2638 deletions(-)

Pulled this as a Git tree, thanks Ard!

The boot-time GDT handling cleanups from Arvind look good to me too. 
There's a couple of arguably scary commits in there, so these might be 
'famous last words'. :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo



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