On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 12:47:24PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=x86-efistub-cleanup-v8 > > I'll prepare the v8 based on this branch after doing some more tests > on bare metal. I'll probably send it out later today. Thx, I'll run it here too. > It depends on the timing. If we take the whole thing now, it should > ideally go through -tip. Now's fine, if it passes testing. > There is a conflict with the kexec sev patch you just suggested on the > list, though. I'll rebase onto that in any case, but if that causes > any problems, we might decide to take everything except the last two > (or three *) patches now, and defer those for later. Right. > * 'efi/libstub: Add limit argument to efi_random_alloc()' may conflict > with some changes that may arrive via the RISC-V tree. That patch is > completely independent, so perhaps I should put it on a shared stable > branch in the EFI tree. Or alternatively, depending on how you decide > to organize the branches, you could put it at the beginning of the > topic branch where the RISC-V tree can merge it in. I could simply give them the tip branch with the stuff and they can merge it. It'll be immutable ofc. > Or we might just ignore the conflict - it just adds a function > argument to a function call that gets moved from one source file to > the another in the conflicting branch, so it should be rather > straight-forward to resolve. That's also a possibility. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
