From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, matt.fleming@intel.com,
linux@arm.linux.org.uk, leif.lindholm@linaro.org,
grant.likely@linaro.org, dave.martin@arm.com, msalter@redhat.com,
patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/8] Add ARM EFI stub
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:07:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140113150735.GF3256@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389371417-379-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org>
On Fri, 10 Jan, at 08:30:09AM, Roy Franz wrote:
> This patch series adds EFI stub support for the ARM architecture. The
> stub for ARM is implemented in a similar manner to x86 in that it is a
> shim layer between EFI and the normal zImage/bzImage boot process, and
> that an image with the stub configured is bootable as both a zImage and
> EFI application. This patchset adds common code that is shared with
> the ARM64 EFI stub.
>
> This patch depends on Leif Lindholm's ARM v7 runtime services patchset, which
> in turn depends on Mark Salter's early_io_remap() patchset. This EFI stub
> patchset can be tested without those by simply modifying the Kconfig for
> EFI_STUB to not depend on EFI. The kernel will boot using the stub,
> however no EFI support will be available in the kernel.
>
> I have addressed all the feedback I have recieved to date, and I am hoping
> that this patchset is acceptable for merging into 3.14. It has been
> functionally stable for some time, and provides useful functionality.
> Further consolidation of the ARM/ARM64 stubs planned as part of the
> ongoing development of the stubs and supporting tools for both
> architectures (getting the FDT from a UEFI configuration table, using UEFI
> memory map instead of FDT for memory description.)
Is this going to Linus via one of the ARM maintainer trees?
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-10 16:30 [PATCH V6 0/8] Add ARM EFI stub Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 1/8] efi-stub.txt updates for ARM Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 2/8] Add shared printk wrapper for consistent prefixing Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 3/8] Add helper function to get and convert EFI command line Roy Franz
2014-01-13 15:04 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-14 19:41 ` Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 4/8] Add shared FDT related functions for ARM/ARM64 Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 5/8] Add strstr to compressed string.c for ARM Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 6/8] Add EFI stub " Roy Franz
2014-01-14 9:05 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-15 1:47 ` Roy Franz
2014-01-15 2:16 ` Roy Franz
2014-01-15 9:46 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-15 11:47 ` Leif Lindholm
2014-01-14 19:29 ` Rob Herring
2014-01-14 19:35 ` Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 7/8] Disable stack protection for decompressor/stub Roy Franz
2014-01-10 16:30 ` [PATCH V6 8/8] Add config EFI_STUB for ARM to Kconfig Roy Franz
2014-01-13 15:07 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2014-01-14 19:39 ` [PATCH V6 0/8] Add ARM EFI stub Roy Franz
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