This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled efi: Build EFI stub with EFI-appropriate options
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: efi-build-efi-stub-with-efi-appropriate-options.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From 9dead5bbb825d7c25c0400e61de83075046322d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:00:00 -0400 Subject: efi: Build EFI stub with EFI-appropriate options From: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> commit 9dead5bbb825d7c25c0400e61de83075046322d0 upstream. We can't assume the presence of the red zone while we're still in a boot services environment, so we should build with -fno-red-zone to avoid problems. Change the size of wchar at the same time to make string handling simpler. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.flem...@intel.com> Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwbo...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ VMLINUX_OBJS = $(obj)/vmlinux.lds $(obj) $(obj)/string.o $(obj)/cmdline.o $(obj)/early_serial_console.o \ $(obj)/piggy.o +$(obj)/eboot.o: KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fshort-wchar -mno-red-zone +$(obj)/efi_stub_$(BITS).o: KBUILD_CLFAGS += -fshort-wchar -mno-red-zone + ifeq ($(CONFIG_EFI_STUB), y) VMLINUX_OBJS += $(obj)/eboot.o $(obj)/efi_stub_$(BITS).o endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m...@redhat.com are queue-3.4/efi-build-efi-stub-with-efi-appropriate-options.patch queue-3.4/efi-initialize-efi.runtime_version-to-make-query_variable_info-update_capsule-workable.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html