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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-12 21:03:44 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-12 21:03:44 +0300
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Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this development cycle were: - Implement EFI dev path parser and other changes to fully support thunderbolt devices on Apple Macbooks (Lukas Wunner) - Add RNG seeding via the EFI stub, on ARM/arm64 (Ard Biesheuvel) - Expose EFI framebuffer configuration to user-space, to improve tooling (Peter Jones) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Ivan Hu, Wei Yongjun, Yisheng Xie, Dan Carpenter, Roy Franz)" * 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: efi/libstub: Make efi_random_alloc() allocate below 4 GB on 32-bit thunderbolt: Compile on x86 only thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies harder thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies thunderbolt: Use Device ROM retrieved from EFI x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties efi: Allow bitness-agnostic protocol calls efi: Add device path parser efi/arm*/libstub: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table efi/libstub: Add random.c to ARM build efi: Add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table MAINTAINERS: Add ARM and arm64 EFI specific files to EFI subsystem efi/libstub: Fix allocation size calculations efi/efivar_ssdt_load: Don't return success on allocation failure efifb: Show framebuffer layout as device attributes efi/efi_test: Use memdup_user() as a cleanup efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'rv' efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'datasize' efi/arm*: Fix efi_init() error handling efi: Remove unused include of <linux/version.h>
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@@ -1062,6 +1062,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
dscc4.setup= [NET]
+ dump_apple_properties [X86]
+ Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
+ x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
+ what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
+
dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
module.dyndbg[="val"]
Enable debug messages at boot time. See