From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755981Ab2CTX5z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:57:55 -0400 Received: from caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5]:39649 "EHLO homiemail-a58.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751996Ab2CTX5x (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:57:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=shealevy.com; h=message-id:date :from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=shealevy.com; b=l5xF2V+mS2Qc7ywF9lXZp40EogPu2Ux1Xxz9xZ/Jt2ylXnv3U4iP6n6/gCITu OpqLL2uQIeDslhByQ4w3bmHjISxtbYtde13/Vx4685TZWLnKqW0kd33sDboZzV1J EvKFmF4rc/LGCP/Tig0nwv+fqOT85nsullDxmH+xjaTQVc= Message-ID: <4F69197E.7020607@shealevy.com> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:57:50 -0400 From: Shea Levy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120311 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Fleming CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Matthew Garret , Matt Fleming , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation References: <1331907517-3985-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> In-Reply-To: <1331907517-3985-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/16/2012 10:18 AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > From: Matt Fleming > > 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?