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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9
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* Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Sep, at 04:18:22PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > Folks, please queue up the following patches for v4.9. There's more
> > work on refactoring EFI code to be architecture independent and the
> > largest number of patches is spent cleaning up the EFI memory map code
> > and allowing drivers on x86 to reserve EFI boot services for all of
> > runtime.
> > 
> > The architecture independent quest is going pretty well and it was
> > only a couple of lines to get the esrt driver working on arm64.
> > 
> > Other than that there's some cleanups and fixes, and a merge of the
> > out of tree EFI runtime driver from the FWTS project.
> 
> Ard just raised the point that some of the changes in this pull,
> particularly the conversion of the EFI runtime services from
> spinlock-protection to semaphore, would benefit enormously from
> testing in linux-next before the merge window.
> 
> Could someone please pull these changes into tip soon so that we can
> get as much testing done as possible?

Yeah, planned to do it over the weekend but got distracted - will do it later 
today.

Thanks,

	Ingo