On 30 August 2017 at 20:13, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...> wrote:
Last chunk: This backports EFI capsule updates, primarily for the use with the IOT2020 and IOT2040, the latter with Quark-proprietary security header format. The feature should also work for the Galileo Gen 2 and, at least conceptually, for any EFI capsule update compatible firmware.
What is the purpose of this series? I hope you are not expecting this to be considered for -stable? Please check Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst for guidelines on what is appropriate for -stable.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...> Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@...> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...> Cc: joeyli <jlee@...> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...> Cc: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@...> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...> Cc: linux-efi@... Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@...> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@...> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@...> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...> Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@...> Cc: <stable@...> # v4.7 Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>
Ard Biesheuvel (3): efi/capsule-loader: Use a cached copy of the capsule header efi/capsule-loader: Redirect calls to efi_capsule_setup_info() via weak alias efi/capsule-loader: Use page addresses rather than struct page pointers
Austin Christ (1): efi/capsule: Allocate whole capsule into virtual memory
Jan Kiszka (5): efi/capsule: Fix return code on failing kmap/vmap efi/capsule: Remove pr_debug() on ENOMEM or EFAULT efi/capsule: Clean up pr_err/_info() messages efi/capsule: Adjust return type of efi_capsule_setup_info() efi/capsule: Add support for Quark security header
Matt Fleming (4): efi: Move efi_status_to_err() to drivers/firmware/efi/ efi: Add 'capsule' update support x86/efi: Force EFI reboot to process pending capsules efi/capsule: Move 'capsule' to the stack in efi_capsule_supported()
