Re: [GIT PULL 00/14] EFI changes for v4.14
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 21 2017 - 05:35:08 EST
* Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> These are the changes we have queued up in the EFI tree for v4.14. Please
> pull.
>
> Russell has been cc'ed twice on the patches that touch the linker script
> of the ARM decompressor, and has elected not to respond, so I assume he
> has no objections.
>
> The following changes since commit 5771a8c08880cdca3bfb4a3fc6d309d6bba20877:
>
> Linux v4.13-rc1 (2017-07-15 15:22:10 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git tags/efi-next
>
> for you to fetch changes up to f6a3116a8881cff8543e1cf028dea6955831ec30:
>
> firmware: efi: esrt: constify attribute_group structures. (2017-08-18 19:55:50 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> EFI changes for v4.14:
> - don't mark ACPI reclaim regions as NOMAP on ARM
> - update the compiler flags for the arm64 version of the EFI stub so that
> we can be confident that no absolute relocations are emitted, even when
> using clang
> - update the EFI framebuffer address if points to a BAR that gets moved
> by the PCI resource allocation code
> - fallback to other poweroff method if EFI poweroff fails (and returns)
> - use separate PE/COFF section headers for the RX and RW parts of the ARM
> stub loader so that the firmware can use strict mapping permissions
> - constify some struct attribute_group instances
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ard Biesheuvel (10):
> efi: arm: Don't mark ACPI reclaim memory as MEMBLOCK_NOMAP
> efi/libstub: arm64: use hidden attribute for struct screen_info reference
> efi/libstub: arm64: force 'hidden' visibility for section markers
> efi/libstub: arm64: set -fpie when building the EFI stub
> efi: arm/arm64: Add missing assignment of efi.config_table
> drivers/fbdev: efifb: allow BAR to be moved instead of claiming it
> arm: efi: remove forbidden values from the PE/COFF header
> arm: efi: remove pointless dummy .reloc section
> arm: efi: replace open coded constants with symbolic ones
> arm: efi: split zImage code and data into separate PE/COFF sections
>
> Arvind Yadav (3):
> firmware: dcdbas: constify attribute_group structures.
> firmware: efi: constify attribute_group structures.
> firmware: efi: esrt: constify attribute_group structures.
>
> Hans de Goede (1):
> efi/reboot: Fall back to original power-off method if EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN returns
>
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S | 160 +++++++++++++++---------------
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 30 ++++--
> arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 3 +
> drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c | 2 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c | 8 ++
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 2 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c | 10 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/reboot.c | 12 ++-
> drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 31 +++---
> 11 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks Ard. I picked them up from email to fix a few minor changelog
formatting details.
Thanks,
Ingo