2013-04-19 17:38:54

by Matt Fleming

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Subject: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes for v3.10

Hi guys,

There's a few bug fixes sitting in the EFI urgent branch. Please
consider pulling.

The following changes since commit ca0ba26fbbd2d81c43085df49ce0abfe34535a90:

efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE (2013-03-22 20:08:01 +0000)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git urgent

for you to fetch changes up to 8c58bf3eec3b8fc8162fe557e9361891c20758f2:

x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter (2013-04-17 15:13:38 +0100)

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Matt Fleming (1):
x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code

Matthew Garrett (3):
Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename
efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space

Richard Weinberger (2):
x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero.
x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter

Sergey Vlasov (2):
x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING
efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 47 ++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 7 ++
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h | 1 +
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 98 +++++---------------
include/linux/efi.h | 9 +-
include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 14 +++
lib/Kconfig | 3 +
lib/Makefile | 2 +
lib/ucs2_string.c | 51 +++++++++++
13 files changed, 325 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/ucs2_string.h
create mode 100644 lib/ucs2_string.c

--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


2013-04-19 22:40:46

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes for v3.10

On 04/19/2013 10:38 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> There's a few bug fixes sitting in the EFI urgent branch. Please
> consider pulling.
>

We are *post -rc7* and days away from release.

I can't push this to Linus without a detailed description of what this
is and why we need it now.

Yes, I can wing it, but I shouldn't *have to* especially not when half
out of my gourd...

-hpa

2013-04-20 00:14:40

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes for v3.10

On 04/19/2013 10:38 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
>
> Richard Weinberger (2):
> x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero.
> x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter
>

OK, I'll pull this for now, but this *really* need to be an automatic
quirk of some sort, especially when there is a named board in the mix...

-hpa