From: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Matthew Garret <mjg@redhat.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:57:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F69197E.7020607@shealevy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331907517-3985-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
On 03/16/2012 10:18 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming<matt.fleming@intel.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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-20 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 14:18 [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation Matt Fleming
2012-03-16 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86, efi: Only close open files in error path Matt Fleming
2012-06-01 19:11 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-03-16 14:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support Matt Fleming
2012-06-01 19:11 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-03-16 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation Matt Fleming
2012-06-01 19:13 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-03-20 23:57 ` Shea Levy [this message]
2012-03-21 0:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-04 10:27 ` Matt Fleming
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