linux-sg2042/Documentation
Ingo Molnar e9765680a3 EFI updates for v5.7:
This time, the set of changes for the EFI subsystem is much larger than
 usual. The main reasons are:
 - Get things cleaned up before EFI support for RISC-V arrives, which will
   increase the size of the validation matrix, and therefore the threshold to
   making drastic changes,
 - After years of defunct maintainership, the GRUB project has finally started
   to consider changes from the distros regarding UEFI boot, some of which are
   highly specific to the way x86 does UEFI secure boot and measured boot,
   based on knowledge of both shim internals and the layout of bootparams and
   the x86 setup header. Having this maintenance burden on other architectures
   (which don't need shim in the first place) is hard to justify, so instead,
   we are introducing a generic Linux/UEFI boot protocol.
 
 Summary of changes:
 - Boot time GDT handling changes (Arvind)
 - Simplify handling of EFI properties table on arm64
 - Generic EFI stub cleanups, to improve command line handling, file I/O,
   memory allocation, etc.
 - Introduce a generic initrd loading method based on calling back into
   the firmware, instead of relying on the x86 EFI handover protocol or
   device tree.
 - Introduce a mixed mode boot method that does not rely on the x86 EFI
   handover protocol either, and could potentially be adopted by other
   architectures (if another one ever surfaces where one execution mode
   is a superset of another)
 - Clean up the contents of struct efi, and move out everything that
   doesn't need to be stored there.
 - Incorporate support for UEFI spec v2.8A changes that permit firmware
   implementations to return EFI_UNSUPPORTED from UEFI runtime services at
   OS runtime, and expose a mask of which ones are supported or unsupported
   via a configuration table.
 - Various documentation updates and minor code cleanups (Heinrich)
 - Partial fix for the lack of by-VA cache maintenance in the decompressor
   on 32-bit ARM. Note that these patches were deliberately put at the
   beginning so they can be used as a stable branch that will be shared with
   a PR containing the complete fix, which I will send to the ARM tree.
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Merge tag 'efi-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi into efi/core

Pull EFI updates for v5.7 from Ard Biesheuvel:

This time, the set of changes for the EFI subsystem is much larger than
usual. The main reasons are:

 - Get things cleaned up before EFI support for RISC-V arrives, which will
   increase the size of the validation matrix, and therefore the threshold to
   making drastic changes,

 - After years of defunct maintainership, the GRUB project has finally started
   to consider changes from the distros regarding UEFI boot, some of which are
   highly specific to the way x86 does UEFI secure boot and measured boot,
   based on knowledge of both shim internals and the layout of bootparams and
   the x86 setup header. Having this maintenance burden on other architectures
   (which don't need shim in the first place) is hard to justify, so instead,
   we are introducing a generic Linux/UEFI boot protocol.

Summary of changes:

 - Boot time GDT handling changes (Arvind)

 - Simplify handling of EFI properties table on arm64

 - Generic EFI stub cleanups, to improve command line handling, file I/O,
   memory allocation, etc.

 - Introduce a generic initrd loading method based on calling back into
   the firmware, instead of relying on the x86 EFI handover protocol or
   device tree.

 - Introduce a mixed mode boot method that does not rely on the x86 EFI
   handover protocol either, and could potentially be adopted by other
   architectures (if another one ever surfaces where one execution mode
   is a superset of another)

 - Clean up the contents of struct efi, and move out everything that
   doesn't need to be stored there.

 - Incorporate support for UEFI spec v2.8A changes that permit firmware
   implementations to return EFI_UNSUPPORTED from UEFI runtime services at
   OS runtime, and expose a mask of which ones are supported or unsupported
   via a configuration table.

 - Various documentation updates and minor code cleanups (Heinrich)

 - Partial fix for the lack of by-VA cache maintenance in the decompressor
   on 32-bit ARM. Note that these patches were deliberately put at the
   beginning so they can be used as a stable branch that will be shared with
   a PR containing the complete fix, which I will send to the ARM tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-02-26 15:21:22 +01:00
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ABI xen: branch for v5.6-rc1 2020-02-05 17:44:14 +00:00
EDID docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
PCI Documentation: PCI: Fix pci_alloc_irq_vectors() function name typo 2019-12-30 08:21:29 -06:00
RCU Merge branches 'doc.2019.12.10a', 'exp.2019.12.09a', 'fixes.2020.01.24a', 'kfree_rcu.2020.01.24a', 'list.2020.01.10a', 'preempt.2020.01.24a' and 'torture.2019.12.09a' into HEAD 2020-01-24 10:37:27 -08:00
accounting docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
admin-guide Additional power management updates for 5.6-rc1 2020-02-07 12:49:10 -08:00
arm ARM: at91: Documentation: add sam9x60 product and datasheet 2020-01-10 23:40:31 +01:00
arm64 mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap() 2020-02-20 10:03:14 +00:00
block docs: block/biovecs: update the location of bio.c 2020-01-10 10:23:15 -07:00
bpf bpf: Add s390 testing documentation 2019-10-30 16:25:31 +01:00
cdrom docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
core-api mm, tree-wide: rename put_user_page*() to unpin_user_page*() 2020-01-31 10:30:38 -08:00
cpu-freq Documentation: cpufreq: Update policy notifier documentation 2019-09-02 22:44:05 +02:00
crypto crypto: algapi - make unregistration functions return void 2019-12-20 14:58:35 +08:00
dev-tools RISC-V Patches for the 5.6 Merge Window, Part 1 2020-01-31 11:23:29 -08:00
devicetree Devicetree fixes for 5.6, part 2: 2020-02-22 10:49:59 -08:00
doc-guide Documentation: build warnings related to missing blank lines after explicit markups has been fixed 2020-02-05 10:30:03 -07:00
driver-api Minor bug fixes for IPMI 2020-02-16 13:05:46 -08:00
fault-injection docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
fb fbdev: fbmem: allow overriding the number of bootup logos 2020-01-03 14:27:40 +01:00
features s390 updates for the 5.6 merge window #2 2020-02-05 17:33:35 +00:00
filesystems zonefs: fix documentation typos etc. 2020-02-21 18:09:26 +09:00
firmware-guide docs: firmware-guide: ACPI: Replace dma_request_slave_channel() with dma_request_chan() 2019-12-19 22:58:12 +01:00
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fpga Documentation: fpga: dfl: add descriptions for thermal/power management interfaces 2019-10-16 19:18:26 -07:00
gpu drm-misc-next for v5.6: 2020-01-03 11:43:44 +10:00
hid docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
hwmon Documentation/hwmon: fix xdpe12284 Sphinx warnings 2020-02-17 14:20:55 -08:00
i2c docs: i2c: writing-clients: properly name the stop condition 2020-01-29 22:02:09 +01:00
ia64 docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
ide docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
iio docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
infiniband Documentation/infiniband: update name of some functions 2019-09-13 16:55:55 -03:00
input Input: docs: fix spelling mistake "potocol" -> "protocol" 2019-08-06 11:24:49 -06:00
isdn isdn: capi: dead code removal 2019-12-11 09:12:38 +01:00
kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
kernel-hacking Documentation: kernel-hacking: hacking.rst: Change reference to document namespaces.rst to symbol-namespaces.rst 2019-12-19 09:36:23 -07:00
leds leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names 2019-07-25 20:07:52 +02:00
livepatch livepatch: Documentation of the new API for tracking system state changes 2019-11-01 13:08:24 +01:00
locking docs/locking: Fix outdated section names 2020-02-05 10:21:12 -07:00
m68k docs: README.buddha: convert to ReST and add to m68k book 2019-07-31 13:30:10 -06:00
maintainer Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation 2020-01-24 09:48:39 -07:00
media media updates for v5.6-rc1 2020-01-31 14:43:23 -08:00
mic docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
mips docs: fix some broken references 2019-10-10 11:25:39 -06:00
misc-devices Documentation: fix Sphinx warning in xilinx_sdfec.rst 2019-12-19 09:26:25 -07:00
netlabel docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
networking netfilter: nf_flowtable: fix documentation 2020-01-31 19:31:42 +01:00
nios2 docs: nios2: add it to the main Documentation body 2019-07-31 13:31:51 -06:00
nvdimm docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection 2020-01-24 09:54:42 -07:00
openrisc docs: openrisc: convert to ReST and add to documentation body 2019-07-31 13:30:20 -06:00
parisc docs: parisc: convert to ReST and add to documentation body 2019-07-31 13:30:15 -06:00
pcmcia docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
power Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Update sleep states documentation 2020-02-03 11:58:26 +01:00
powerpc powerpc updates for 5.6 2020-02-04 13:06:46 +00:00
process Documentation/process: Swap out the ambassador for Canonical 2020-02-13 15:38:41 -08:00
riscv It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's still a 2020-01-29 15:27:31 -08:00
s390 Documentation/s390: remove outdated debugging390 documentation 2019-08-21 12:41:43 +02:00
scheduler Documentation/scheduler: fix links in sched-stats 2019-10-29 04:35:41 -06:00
scsi scsi: smartpqi: Update attribute name to `driver_version` 2019-12-09 19:17:36 -05:00
security Documentation: security: core.rst: fix warnings 2019-11-22 10:01:47 -07:00
sh docs: remove extra conf.py files 2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
sound sound updates for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-28 16:26:57 -08:00
sparc docs: add arch doc directories to the index 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
sphinx docs: Keep up with the location of NoUri 2020-01-24 09:47:05 -07:00
sphinx-static doc-rst: Reduce CSS padding around Field 2019-10-02 10:03:06 -06:00
spi spi: docs: convert to ReST and add it to the kABI bookset 2019-07-31 14:13:13 -06:00
target docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
timers docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
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translations Documentation/process: Swap out the ambassador for Canonical 2020-02-13 15:38:41 -08:00
usb docs: usb: remove some broken references 2020-01-28 13:41:22 -07:00
userspace-api staging: remove isdn capi drivers 2019-12-11 09:11:29 +01:00
virt KVM: s390: rstify new ioctls in api.rst 2020-02-24 19:28:40 +01:00
vm mm/zswap.c: add allocation hysteresis if pool limit is hit 2020-01-31 10:30:39 -08:00
w1 docs: w1: Fix a typo in omap-hdq.rst 2019-12-30 11:58:02 -07:00
watchdog linux-watchdog 5.4-rc1 tag 2019-09-27 11:17:38 -07:00
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xtensa docs: add arch doc directories to the index 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
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