Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

2016-03-07 Thread Matt Fleming
supported entry point for EFI > in Linux. We do not want EFI machines using other entry points. It > worked out terribly when we used to do this, and we don't want to start > again. I've Cc'd Matt Fleming, the upstream kernel EFI maintainer, > because I'm sure he&#

Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

2016-03-09 Thread Matt Fleming
On Tue, 08 Mar, at 07:57:35AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > >> - 64-bit kernel on 32-bit platform like Baytrail can't work > > Do you mean "32 bit EFI"? If yes, why is it a problem? The biggest issue is that there's no way right now for a boot loader to tell the kernel that it needs to use a transla

Re: Linux loader EFI handover (was: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1])

2016-03-10 Thread Matt Fleming
On Wed, 09 Mar, at 11:15:16PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > 09.03.2016 18:18, Matt Fleming пишет: > > On Tue, 08 Mar, at 07:57:35AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > >>>> - 64-bit kernel on 32-bit platform like Baytrail can't work > >> > >> Do you mean "32

Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

2016-03-14 Thread Matt Fleming
On Fri, 11 Mar, at 04:51:52PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > I'm ok with switching to EFI entry point for EFI platforms if plain 32-bit > entry point stays available for platforms like coreboot. Can we agree on > this? Yes, the legacy 32-bit entry points won't be going anywhere. They w

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Apple device properties

2016-08-04 Thread Matt Fleming
On Thu, 28 Jul, at 02:25:41AM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > Apple EFI drivers supply device properties which are needed to support > Macs optimally. > > This series extends the efistub to retrieve the device properties before > ExitBootServices is called (patch [1/6]). They are assigned to devices > in a

Re: [PATCH 1/6] efi: Retrieve Apple device properties

2016-08-04 Thread Matt Fleming
On Thu, 28 Jul, at 02:25:41AM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c > b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c > index ff574da..7262ee4 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c > @@ -571,6 +571,55 @@ free_handle: > e

Re: [PATCH 1/6] efi: Retrieve Apple device properties

2016-08-05 Thread Matt Fleming
On Fri, 05 Aug, at 01:42:19PM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > So I could cap the number of loop iterations but it would be pointless. OK, thanks for the explanation. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-de

Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Apple device properties

2016-09-13 Thread Matt Fleming
On Wed, 07 Sep, at 12:49:18PM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > Retrieve device properties from EFI on Macs before ExitBootServices is > called and assign them to devices (patch [3/4]). The devices that > properties pertain to are encoded as EFI Device Paths, so add a parser > for these (patch [2/4]). As a fi

[GIT PULL 0/9] EFI changes for v4.10

2016-11-12 Thread Matt Fleming
Folks, please pull the following v4.10 material. There isn't a huge amount of stuff here. The biggest change is the EFI dev path parser code from Lukas to get thunderbolt working on his macbook. [ The thunderbolt patch has been ACK'd by Andreas and given the OK to take it through the EFI tree