On Wed, 07 Sep, at 12:49:18PM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > Retrieve device properties from EFI on Macs before ExitBootServices is > called and assign them to devices (patch [3/4]). The devices that > properties pertain to are encoded as EFI Device Paths, so add a parser > for these (patch [2/4]). As a first use case, amend the Thunderbolt driver > to take advantage of the Device ROM supplied by EFI (patch [4/4]). > > Patch [1/4] is already queued in Rafael J. Wysocki's tree for 4.9 and is > included here only because patch [2/4] wouldn't compile without it. > > The series also depends on these two patches which are already queued > in Matt's tree for 4.9: > > - x86/efi: Optimize away setup_gop32/64 if unused > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9315763/ > > - x86/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary boot services > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9293371/
I had a quick look over these series and nothing looks too crazy, but I still need to do an in-depth review. Given the patch dependencies you outlined above, could you resubmit this after the v4.9 merge window closes? That way it won't be forgotten about.
