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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:27:47 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        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


* 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!

	Ingo