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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] x86, efi: EFI boot stub documentation
    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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