Re: [PATCH 0/3] unify efi debug output across architectures

From	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/3] unify efi debug output across architectures
Date	2015-08-26 15:50 +0200
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On 26 August 2015 at 15:24, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> wrote:
> efi didn't use to have much in the way of kernel command line options,
> until some point last year. Then once the efi= option was added, it has
> been expanded on.
>
> x86 had an efi=debug option added, but that would be a useful thing
> across all efi architectures.
>
> arm64 efi support (predating efi=debug) came with its own 'uefi_debug'
> option, and passed along a special verbosity flag when calling into
> some not-strictly-arch-specific functions in core efi code.
>
> So:
> - Move efi=debug into core code, to be usable by all architectures
> - Change arm64 efi code to use 'efi=debug' instead of 'uefi_debug'
> - Rework arm64 interface to core code to drop special verbosity flag
>

For the series:

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

> Leif Lindholm (3):
>   efi/x86: move efi=debug option parsing to core
>   arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug command line parameter
>   efi/arm64: clean up efi_get_fdt_params() interface
>
>  Documentation/arm/uefi.txt  |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c     | 19 +++++--------------
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c |  2 --
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c  |  9 +++++----
>  include/linux/efi.h         |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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[PATCH 0/3] unify efi debug output across architectures Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> - 2015-08-26 15:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: move efi=debug option parsing to core Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> - 2015-08-26 15:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: move efi=debug option parsing to core Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-08-26 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] unify efi debug output across architectures Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-08-26 15:50 +0200

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