linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes for v3.8

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:57:17 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes for v3.8

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 10:29 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> The following changes since commit 7d1f9aeff1ee4a20b1aeb377dd0f579fe9647619:
> 
>   Linux 3.8-rc4 (2013-01-17 19:25:45 -0800)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-for-3.8
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 791eb564d218dabe0f9a2212916fe54240b97afb:
> 
>   efivarfs: Delete dentry from dcache in efivarfs_file_write() (2013-01-18 09:43:44 +0000)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> EFI fixes for v3.8
> 
>   * Fix EFI boot crash on machines with > 512GB of RAM
>   * Fix a few oopses in efivarfs

I believe the EFI boot stub is still totally hosed on 32-bit, and
doesn't correctly set up the graphics when running under qemu in either
mode. Any chance of merging those fixes for 3.8 too? I probably should
have marked them for stable, too.

Not to mention the fact that no sane bootloader can *use* the EFI boot
stub until we start indicating which mode it needs to be invoked in...
which could probably *also* go to stable, in fact. It's just a couple of
new flags in the existing loadflags fields, and doesn't really even need
the bootproto version to be bumped.

-- 
dwmw2

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