[PATCH 0/3] unify efi debug output across architectures
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Aug 26 06:46:38 PDT 2015
On 26 August 2015 at 15:24, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at 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 at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at 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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