linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9

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Message-ID: <20160912114229.GA7597@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:42:30 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ivan Hu <ivan.hu@...onical.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>, joeyli <jlee@...e.com>,
        Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
        Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
        Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
        Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
        Môshe van der Sterre <me@...he.nl>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
        Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>,
        Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
        Scott Lawson <scott.lawson@...el.com>,
        Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@...il.com>,
        Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9


* Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Sep, at 04:18:22PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > Folks, please queue up the following patches for v4.9. There's more
> > work on refactoring EFI code to be architecture independent and the
> > largest number of patches is spent cleaning up the EFI memory map code
> > and allowing drivers on x86 to reserve EFI boot services for all of
> > runtime.
> > 
> > The architecture independent quest is going pretty well and it was
> > only a couple of lines to get the esrt driver working on arm64.
> > 
> > Other than that there's some cleanups and fixes, and a merge of the
> > out of tree EFI runtime driver from the FWTS project.
> 
> Ard just raised the point that some of the changes in this pull,
> particularly the conversion of the EFI runtime services from
> spinlock-protection to semaphore, would benefit enormously from
> testing in linux-next before the merge window.
> 
> Could someone please pull these changes into tip soon so that we can
> get as much testing done as possible?

Yeah, planned to do it over the weekend but got distracted - will do it later 
today.

Thanks,

	Ingo