From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] arm64 EFI patches for 3.19 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:50:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20141027115055.GM8768@arm.com> References: <1413987713-30528-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1413987713-30528-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: "leif.lindholm-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" , "roy.franz-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" , "msalter-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , Mark Rutland , Catalin Marinas , "matt.fleming-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" , "linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" , "dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , "yi.li-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Hi Ard, On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:21:43PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > This is a bit of a mixed bag of patches that we would like to see merged for > 3.19. Most of them have been posted and discussed on linux-efi and/or LAKML > before, and one of them has even been merged and reverted twice. > > Patches #1 - #4 are fixes for compliance with the UEFI and PE/COFF specs. > No issues are known that require these patches, so there is no reason to > pull them into a stable release. > > Patches #5 and #6 address minor issues in the arm64 EFI init code. > > Patches #7 - #10 implement DMI/SMBIOS for arm64, both the existing 32-bit > version and the upcoming 3.0 version that allows the SMBIOS structure table > to reside at a physical offset that cannot be encoded in 32-bits. It also > install a 'Hardware: xxx' string that is printed along with oopses and > kernel call stack dumps on systems that implement DMI/SMBIOS. > > Please refer to the patches themselves for version history. Acks and/or > comments appreciated. It would be helpful for me if you could split this into two series -- one for the arm64 tree and the other for the efi tree. That would also make the dependencies clearer, so I know whether any of the arch bits need to go via Matt. Cheers, Will