From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754944Ab2EDK1k (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 06:27:40 -0400 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:35532 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754662Ab2EDK1j (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 06:27:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation From: Matt Fleming To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Matthew Garret , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1331907517-3985-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> References: <1331907517-3985-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 11:27:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1336127255.18999.53.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 (2.32.3-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ping? I can't find these patches in tip. On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 14:18 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > From: Matt Fleming > > 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 >