Withdraw: [Precise] [PATCH 00/10] Prevent samsung-laptop bricking when using UEFI

[Brad Figg]

On 02/01/2013 12:20 PM, Brad Figg wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1111689
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> Impact:
> With the existing code there is still the chance that the samsung-laptop driver can run if the given system is booting a 32-bit kernel with 64-bit EFI firmware (or vice versa). This
> can lead to a system that is "bricked" and can not be recovered.
> 
> Fix:
> First, we will need to revert the existing commit we have for the samsung-laptop/EFI
> issue:
>     af3e234992e2a9a82ccd2b7692d61d5a47c5bece (Precise tree)
> 
> Then we need to cherry-pick/backport the following 9 commits from Linus' tree
>     e8c7106280a305e1ff2a3a8a4dfce141469fb039 (cherry-pick)
>     f7d7d01be53cb47e0ae212c4e968aa28b82d2138 (cherry-pick)
>     83e7ee6657dfcd6b0ee2406d11024b558064252a (cherry-pick)
>     e3cb3f5a35997906f9b79bf860029c02a54cfae6 (cherry-pick)
>     a6a46f415dca828a04a435ca1f67de0bc5b9ae30 (cherry-pick)
>     140bf275d3e89e9b36851d5cf498dbbbecdf7ca8 (cherry-pick)
>     1adbfa3511ee1c1118e16a9a0246870f12fef4e6 (backport)
>     4a27b01761e602f568cb04fbafbed365dacb4c97 (cherry-pick)
>     5189c2a7c7769ee9d037d76c1a7b8550ccf3481c (backport)
> 
> 
> The following patches do exactly that, they revert the previous Ubuntu Sauce
> patch to the samsung-laptop driver, backport the "Make 'efi_enabled' a function"
> commit and cherry-pick a new commit to the samsung-laptop driver.
> 
> Brad Figg (1):
>   Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: samsung-laptop: disable in UEFI mode"
> 
> Josh Triplett (1):
>   efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI init
> 
> Matt Fleming (2):
>   x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid
>   x86: Don't use magic strings for EFI loader signature
> 
> Olof Johansson (6):
>   x86, efi: Refactor efi_init() a bit
>   x86, efi: Convert printk to pr_*()
>   x86, efi: Cleanup config table walking
>   x86, efi: Add basic error handling
>   x86, efi: Allow basic init with mixed 32/64-bit efi/kernel
>   x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h           |    8 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h            |   12 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c                |    3 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c               |   48 +++-
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c           |  432 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c        |   17 --
>  drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c |    4 -
>  include/linux/efi.h                   |   50 ++++
>  init/main.c                           |    3 +
>  9 files changed, 413 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)
> 


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