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Linus Torvalds fc4c9f4504 EFI updates for v6.2:
- Refactor the zboot code so that it incorporates all the EFI stub
   logic, rather than calling the decompressed kernel as a EFI app.
 - Add support for initrd= command line option to x86 mixed mode.
 - Allow initrd= to be used with arbitrary EFI accessible file systems
   instead of just the one the kernel itself was loaded from.
 - Move some x86-only handling and manipulation of the EFI memory map
   into arch/x86, as it is not used anywhere else.
 - More flexible handling of any random seeds provided by the boot
   environment (i.e., systemd-boot) so that it becomes available much
   earlier during the boot.
 - Allow improved arch-agnostic EFI support in loaders, by setting a
   uniform baseline of supported features, and adding a generic magic
   number to the DOS/PE header. This should allow loaders such as GRUB or
   systemd-boot to reduce the amount of arch-specific handling
   substantially.
 - (arm64) Run EFI runtime services from a dedicated stack, and use it to
   recover from synchronous exceptions that might occur in the firmware
   code.
 - (arm64) Ensure that we don't allocate memory outside of the 48-bit
   addressable physical range.
 - Make EFI pstore record size configurable
 - Add support for decoding CXL specific CPER records
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Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi

Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another fairly sizable pull request, by EFI subsystem standards.

  Most of the work was done by me, some of it in collaboration with the
  distro and bootloader folks (GRUB, systemd-boot), where the main focus
  has been on removing pointless per-arch differences in the way EFI
  boots a Linux kernel.

   - Refactor the zboot code so that it incorporates all the EFI stub
     logic, rather than calling the decompressed kernel as a EFI app.

   - Add support for initrd= command line option to x86 mixed mode.

   - Allow initrd= to be used with arbitrary EFI accessible file systems
     instead of just the one the kernel itself was loaded from.

   - Move some x86-only handling and manipulation of the EFI memory map
     into arch/x86, as it is not used anywhere else.

   - More flexible handling of any random seeds provided by the boot
     environment (i.e., systemd-boot) so that it becomes available much
     earlier during the boot.

   - Allow improved arch-agnostic EFI support in loaders, by setting a
     uniform baseline of supported features, and adding a generic magic
     number to the DOS/PE header. This should allow loaders such as GRUB
     or systemd-boot to reduce the amount of arch-specific handling
     substantially.

   - (arm64) Run EFI runtime services from a dedicated stack, and use it
     to recover from synchronous exceptions that might occur in the
     firmware code.

   - (arm64) Ensure that we don't allocate memory outside of the 48-bit
     addressable physical range.

   - Make EFI pstore record size configurable

   - Add support for decoding CXL specific CPER records"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (43 commits)
  arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware
  arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack
  arm64: efi: Limit allocations to 48-bit addressable physical region
  efi: Put Linux specific magic number in the DOS header
  efi: libstub: Always enable initrd command line loader and bump version
  efi: stub: use random seed from EFI variable
  efi: vars: prohibit reading random seed variables
  efi: random: combine bootloader provided RNG seed with RNG protocol output
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Error Log
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Protocol Error Section
  efi: libstub: fix efi_load_initrd_dev_path() kernel-doc comment
  efi: x86: Move EFI runtime map sysfs code to arch/x86
  efi: runtime-maps: Clarify purpose and enable by default for kexec
  efi: pstore: Add module parameter for setting the record size
  efi: xen: Set EFI_PARAVIRT for Xen dom0 boot on all architectures
  efi: memmap: Move manipulation routines into x86 arch tree
  efi: memmap: Move EFI fake memmap support into x86 arch tree
  efi: libstub: Undeprecate the command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Add mixed mode support to command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Permit mixed mode return types other than efi_status_t
  ...
2022-12-13 14:31:47 -08:00
arch EFI updates for v6.2: 2022-12-13 14:31:47 -08:00
block for-6.2/block-2022-12-08 2022-12-13 10:43:59 -08:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of 2022-12-12 18:29:54 -08:00
Documentation integrity-v6.2 2022-12-13 14:22:50 -08:00
drivers EFI updates for v6.2: 2022-12-13 14:31:47 -08:00
fs EFI updates for v6.2: 2022-12-13 14:31:47 -08:00
include EFI updates for v6.2: 2022-12-13 14:31:47 -08:00
init modules changes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 14:05:39 -08:00
io_uring for-6.2/block-2022-12-08 2022-12-13 10:43:59 -08:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel sysctl changes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 14:16:44 -08:00
lib regulator: Updates for v6.2 2022-12-13 12:49:59 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm for-6.2/block-2022-12-08 2022-12-13 10:43:59 -08:00
net lsm/stable-6.2 PR 20221212 2022-12-13 09:47:48 -08:00
rust rust: types: add Opaque type 2022-12-04 01:59:16 +01:00
samples Landlock updates for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 09:14:50 -08:00
scripts modules changes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 14:05:39 -08:00
security integrity-v6.2 2022-12-13 14:22:50 -08:00
sound sound updates for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 11:27:26 -08:00
tools sound updates for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 11:27:26 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-dwmw2-fixes' into HEAD 2022-11-23 18:59:45 -05:00
.clang-format printk changes for 6.2 2022-12-12 09:01:36 -08:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: Cleanup DT Overlay intermediate files as appropriate 2022-11-18 14:45:30 -06:00
.mailmap Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS EFI updates for v6.2: 2022-12-13 14:31:47 -08:00
Makefile This was a not-too-busy cycle for documentation; highlights include: 2022-12-12 17:18:50 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.