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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

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[GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 20/29] x86/efi: Map in physical addresses in efi_map_region_fixed Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 27/29] x86/efi: Use kmalloc_array() in efi_call_phys_prolog() Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 04/29] efi: Add efi_memmap_init_late() for permanent EFI memmap Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 12/29] efi/esrt: Use memremap not ioremap to access ESRT table in memory Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 25/29] efi: Add efi_test driver for exporting UEFI runtime service interfaces Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 23/29] efi/arm64: Add debugfs node to dump UEFI runtime page tables Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 08/29] efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 22/29] x86/efi: Remove unused find_bits() function Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 10/29] efi/esrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() and avoid a kmalloc() Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 16/29] efi: Replace runtime services spinlock with semaphore Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 28/29] x86/efi: Optimize away setup_gop32/64 if unused Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 17/29] x86/efi: Initialize status to ensure garbage is not returned on small size Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 18/29] firmware-gsmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "dma_pool_destroy" Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 21/29] fs/efivarfs: Fix double kfree() in error path Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-09 17:30 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-09-12 13:00 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-09-12 13:50 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-09-13 20:40 +0200

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