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H. Peter Anvin (Intel) 067595d728 x86/boot: Fix make hdimage with older versions of mtools
Some versions of mtools (fixed somewhere between 4.0.31 and 4.0.35)
generate bad output for mformat when used with the partition= option.
Use the offset= option instead. An mtools.conf entry is *also* needed
with partition= to support mpartition; combining them in one entry does
not work either.

Don't specify the -t option to mpartition; it is unnecessary and seems
to confuse mpartition under some circumstances.

Also do a few minor optimizations:

Use a larger cluster size; there is no reason for the typical 4K
clusters when we are dealing mainly with comparatively huge files.

Start the partition at 32K. There is no reason to align it more than
that, since the internal FAT filesystem structures will at best be
cluster-aligned, and 32K is the maximum FAT cluster size.

 [ bp: Remove "we". ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210911003906.2700218-1-hpa@zytor.com
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Documentation A set of fixes for interrupt chip drivers: 2021-09-26 09:55:22 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
arch x86/boot: Fix make hdimage with older versions of mtools 2021-09-29 11:06:47 +02:00
block SCSI fixes on 20210925 2021-09-25 16:05:56 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
drivers Fix two EDAC drivers using the wrong value type for the DIMM mode. 2021-09-26 12:18:10 -07:00
fs Five fixes for the ksmbd kernel server, including three security fixes: removing follow symlinks support and converting to use LOOKUP_BENEATH to prevent out of share access, and a compounding security fix, also includes a fix for FILE_STREAM_INFORMATION fixing a bug when writing ppt or doc files from some clients 2021-09-26 12:46:45 -07:00
include A set of fixes for X86: 2021-09-26 10:09:20 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.init' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-09-24 10:18:07 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel A single fix for the recently introduced regression in posix CPU timers 2021-09-26 10:00:16 -07:00
lib lib/zlib_inflate/inffast: check config in C to avoid unused function warning 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
mm mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
net nexthop: Fix memory leaks in nexthop notification chain listeners 2021-09-23 12:33:22 +01:00
samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts kasan: always respect CONFIG_KASAN_STACK 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
security selinux,smack: fix subjective/objective credential use mixups 2021-09-23 12:30:59 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 5.15-rc1 2021-09-09 16:05:10 -07:00
tools A set of fixes for X86: 2021-09-26 10:09:20 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid() 2021-09-06 08:23:46 -04:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS SCSI fixes on 20210925 2021-09-25 16:05:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc3 2021-09-26 14:08:19 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

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.