Re: [PATCH 0/4] Make commonly useful UEFI functions common

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 16:27:11 EST


On 07/30/2013 09:47 AM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> This set breaks out some common code from x86/ia64 EFI support
> code and puts it into drivers/firmware/efi.
>
> First it takes the definition of the global "efi" data structure
> and moves it into global efi.c. Then it implements a common version
> of efi_config_init().
>
> Secondly it breaks the efi_lookup_mapped_addr() function out of x86
> and places it in global efi.c, for shared use with future ARM
> patches.
>
> IA64 code compile tested only.
>
> Pardon the delay in getting this out - back to back conferences
> followed by a bad case of the man flu.
>
> Leif Lindholm (4):
> efi: provide a generic efi_config_init()
> efi: x86: use common code for (U)EFI configuration scanning
> efi: ia64: use common code for (U)EFI configuration scanning
> efi: x86: make efi_lookup_mapped_addr() a common function
>
> arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
> arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c | 54 ++++-------------
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 124 +++------------------------------------
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/efi.h | 7 +++
> 5 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)
>

Matt, I assume you're picking this up once the missing bits are plugged
in, right?

-hpa

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