From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garret <mjg@redhat.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331907517-3985-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> (raw)
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Some people trying out the EFI stub have been confused about the
syntax for the initrd= option, so this series adds some information to
Documentation/x86. It also adds some helpful error messages, as
previously if the user specified an incorrect initrd filename the
machine just appeared to hang. Now at least it will print a message
saying that it couldn't open the file.
The first patch is actually a bug fix for an issue where the wrong
loop counter was used when trying to close initrd files in the error
path, which caused the machine to hang because a garbage pointer was
dereferenced.
Ideally I'd like to squeeze at least the last two patches in before
v3.3 is released.
Matt Fleming (3):
x86, efi: Only close open files in error path
x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support
x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h | 6 +++
4 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/efi-stub.txt
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1.7.4.4
next reply other threads:[~2012-03-16 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 14:18 Matt Fleming [this message]
2012-03-16 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86, efi: Only close open files in error path Matt Fleming
2012-06-01 19:11 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-03-16 14:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support Matt Fleming
2012-06-01 19:11 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-03-16 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation Matt Fleming
2012-06-01 19:13 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-03-20 23:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: " Shea Levy
2012-03-21 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-04 10:27 ` Matt Fleming
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