[PATCH v2 00/10] arm64 EFI patches for 3.19

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 28 October 2014 17:18, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> Version v2 of arm64/efi patches for 3.19.
> Changes since previous version:
> - dropped patch #6 'arm64/efi: use UEFI memory map unconditionally if available'
>   (will be revisited later, but due to other changes in the pipeline regarding
>   the virtual mapping of UEFI Runtime Services, it makes sense to defer this
>   to 3.20)
> - added patch #10 'efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence'
>
> Note that Matt Fleming has given his approval for taking all of these through
> the arm64 tree.
>
> @Matt: may we have your ack on patches #6, #7 and #10 please? Patch #7 covers
> DMI not EFI but get_maintainer.pl is not very helpful here. (The patch is cc'ed
> to akpm and Tony Luck [ia64 maintainer])
>
> Patches #1 - #3 are fixes for compliance with the UEFI and PE/COFF specs.
> No issues are known that require these patches, so there is no reason to
> pull them into a stable release.
>
> Patch #4 fixes is_reserve_region() to correctly identify UEFI memory regions
> that need to be reserved by the OS. This patch supersedes the patch sent as
> part of the v1 series: 'arm64/efi: reserve regions of type ACPI_MEMORY_NVS'
>
> Patch #5 removes a redundant set_bit(EFI_CONFIG_TABLES) call.
>
> Patches #6 - #9 implement DMI/SMBIOS for arm64, both the existing 32-bit
> version and the upcoming 3.0 version that allows the SMBIOS structure table
> to reside at a physical offset that cannot be encoded in 32-bits. It also
> installs a 'Hardware name: xxx' string that is printed along with oopses
> and kernel call stack dumps on systems that implement DMI/SMBIOS.
>
> Patch #10 is a patch from Mark Rutland I picked up that improves the
> diagnostic output of the EFI stub regarding the origin of the device
> tree blob.
>
> Please refer to the patches themselves for version history. Acks and/or
> comments appreciated.
>

OK, it appears we're good to go with this series.

@Will: would you like me to repost one final time? Or would you prefer
a pull request instead? The only changes are added acks and a single
code change where an open-coded constant 127 is replaced with its
symbolic name DMI_ENTRY_END_OF_TABLE.

Regards,
Ard.