linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation

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Message-ID: <4F69197E.7020607@shealevy.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:57:50 -0400
From:	Shea Levy <shea@...alevy.com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Matthew Garret <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation

On 03/16/2012 10:18 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming<matt.fleming@...el.com>
>
> Some people trying out the EFI stub have been confused about the
> syntax for the initrd= option, so this series adds some information to
> Documentation/x86. It also adds some helpful error messages, as
> previously if the user specified an incorrect initrd filename the
> machine just appeared to hang. Now at least it will print a message
> saying that it couldn't open the file.
>
> The first patch is actually a bug fix for an issue where the wrong
> loop counter was used when trying to close initrd files in the error
> path, which caused the machine to hang because a garbage pointer was
> dereferenced.
>
> Ideally I'd like to squeeze at least the last two patches in before
> v3.3 is released.
>
> Matt Fleming (3):
>    x86, efi: Only close open files in error path
>    x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support
>    x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
>
>   Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt   |   65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/x86/Kconfig                 |    2 +
>   arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c |   88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>   arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h |    6 +++
>   4 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt
>

Anyone know if we can expect these to be in mainline by the end of the 
merge window?
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