[PATCH 0/6] Apple device properties

From: Lukas Wunner
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 07:20:51 EST


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 an fs_initcall (patch [5/6]). As a first use case, the Thunderbolt
driver is amended to take advantage of the Device ROM supplied by EFI
(patch [6/6]).

A by-product is a parser for EFI Device Paths which finds the struct
device corresponding to a given path. This is needed to assign
properties to their devices (patch [3/6]).


I've pushed these patches to GitHub where they can be reviewed more
comfortably with green/red highlighting:
https://github.com/l1k/linux/commits/apple_properties_v1


It would be good if one of the resident EFI experts could look over
patch [1/6] to see if I've made any mistakes that might prevent this
from working on 32 bit. It was only tested on 64 bit, I don't know
anyone with an older Mac who could test this.

Specifically, is the following okay:
efi_early->call((unsigned long)sys_table->boottime->locate_protocol, ...)

It would be convenient to have LocateProtocol or LocateHandleBuffer in
struct efi_config so that they can be called with efi_call_early().
Would a patch to add those be entertained? Right now we only offer
LocateHandle and HandleProtocol, which is somewhat cumbersome and
needs more code as the setup_pci() functions show.

Thanks,

Lukas


Lukas Wunner (6):
efi: Retrieve Apple device properties
ACPI / bus: Make acpi_get_first_physical_node() public
efi: Add device path parser
driver core: Don't leak secondary fwnode on device removal
efi: Assign Apple device properties
thunderbolt: Use Device ROM retrieved from EFI

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 55 ++++++++
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h | 1 +
drivers/acpi/internal.h | 1 -
drivers/base/core.c | 1 +
drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 16 +++
drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c | 219 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/firmware/efi/dev-path-parser.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/thunderbolt/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c | 42 ++++++
drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c | 2 +-
include/linux/acpi.h | 7 +
include/linux/efi.h | 38 ++++++
14 files changed, 574 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/dev-path-parser.c

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