Re: [GIT PULL v2] EFI updates for v5.7

[Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 15:27, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
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> * Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
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> > Hello Ingo, Thomas,
> >
> > I am sending this as an ordinary PR again, given the size. Please let me
> > know if instead, you prefer me to send it out piecemeal as usual. Either
> > works for me, I was just reluctant to spam people unsolicited.
> >
> > Note that EFI for RISC-V may still arrive this cycle as well.
> >
> > Please take special note of the GDT changes by Arvind. They were posted to
> > the list without any feedback, and they look fine to me, but I know very
> > little about these x86 CPU low level details.
> >
> > This was all build and boot tested on various different kinds of hardware,
> > and all minor issues that were reported by the robots were fixed along the way.
> >
> > Please pull,
> > Ard.
> >
> >
> > The following changes since commit bb6d3fb354c5ee8d6bde2d576eb7220ea09862b9:
> >
> >   Linux 5.6-rc1 (2020-02-09 16:08:48 -0800)
> >
> > 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 dc235d62fc60a6549238eda7ff29769457fe5663:
> >
> >   efi: Bump the Linux EFI stub major version number to #1 (2020-02-23 21:59:42 +0100)
>
> >  66 files changed, 2718 insertions(+), 2638 deletions(-)
>
> Pulled this as a Git tree, thanks Ard!
>
> The boot-time GDT handling cleanups from Arvind look good to me too.
> There's a couple of arguably scary commits in there, so these might be
> 'famous last words'. :-)
>

Thanks!