Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:57:50 -0400 | From | Shea Levy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation |
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On 03/16/2012 10:18 AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > 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 >
Anyone know if we can expect these to be in mainline by the end of the merge window?
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