linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 00/33] EFI updates for v5.8

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Message-ID: <CAMj1kXHSRfS3+PBWDZWBHCuidTKTAFb8c0Apfyw-1JrTbH=CRg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:57:45 +0200
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>,
        Zou Wei <zou_wei@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/33] EFI updates for v5.8

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 10:27, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>
> * Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello Ingo, Thomas,
> >
> > Please pull the attached changes into tip/efi/next. There is some
> > coordination going on with the RISC-V tree this time, so please take the
> > patches in this exact order, and apply them onto v5.7-rc2 so the first
> > three patches can serve as a shared stable base between the efi/core
> > branch and the riscv tree.
> >
> > The following changes since commit ae83d0b416db002fe95601e7f97f64b59514d936:
> >
> >   Linux 5.7-rc2 (2020-04-19 14:35:30 -0700)
> >
> > 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 4eb8320bd1aaa7e69d039f2c251735e3ef0b9a38:
> >
> >   efi: Move arch_tables check to caller (2020-04-24 14:52:16 +0200)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > EFI changes for v5.8:
> > - preliminary changes for RISC-V
> > - add support for setting the resolution on the EFI framebuffer
> > - simplify kernel image loading for arm64
> > - Move .bss into .data via the linker script instead of relying on symbol
> >   annotations.
> > - Get rid of __pure getters to access global variables
> > - Clean up the config table matching arrays
>
> >  27 files changed, 895 insertions(+), 574 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/alignedmem.c
> >  rename drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/{arm-stub.c => efi-stub.c} (96%)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c
>
> Pulled into tip:efi/core, thanks a lot Ard!
>

Thanks Ingo

I guess this means you didn't spot my remark regarding patch #3, which
needs a Kconfig depends tweak for x86. I'll send that out as a
followup patch.