linux/Documentation/driver-api
Linus Torvalds a776c270a0 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 EFI changes in this cycle are much larger than usual, for two
  (positive) reasons:

   - The GRUB project is showing signs of life again, resulting in the
     introduction of the generic Linux/UEFI boot protocol, instead of
     x86 specific hacks which are increasingly difficult to maintain.
     There's hope that all future extensions will now go through that
     boot protocol.

   - Preparatory work for RISC-V EFI support.

  The main changes are:

   - Boot time GDT handling changes

   - 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.

   - Partial fix for the lack of by-VA cache maintenance in the
     decompressor on 32-bit ARM.

   - Changes to load device firmware from EFI boot service memory
     regions

   - Various documentation updates and minor code cleanups and fixes"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  efi/libstub/arm: Fix spurious message that an initrd was loaded
  efi/libstub/arm64: Avoid image_base value from efi_loaded_image
  partitions/efi: Fix partition name parsing in GUID partition entry
  efi/x86: Fix cast of image argument
  efi/libstub/x86: Use ULONG_MAX as upper bound for all allocations
  efi: Fix a mistype in comments mentioning efivar_entry_iter_begin()
  efi/libstub: Avoid linking libstub/lib-ksyms.o into vmlinux
  efi/x86: Preserve %ebx correctly in efi_set_virtual_address_map()
  efi/x86: Ignore the memory attributes table on i386
  efi/x86: Don't relocate the kernel unless necessary
  efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block
  efi/x86: Add kernel preferred address to PE header
  efi/x86: Decompress at start of PE image load address
  x86/boot/compressed/32: Save the output address instead of recalculating it
  efi/libstub/x86: Deal with exit() boot service returning
  x86/boot: Use unsigned comparison for addresses
  efi/x86: Avoid using code32_start
  efi/x86: Make efi32_pe_entry() more readable
  efi/x86: Respect 32-bit ABI in efi32_pe_entry()
  efi/x86: Annotate the LOADED_IMAGE_PROTOCOL_GUID with SYM_DATA
  ...
2020-03-30 16:13:08 -07:00
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80211 docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel 2020-03-20 17:01:29 -06:00
acpi Documentation: ACPI: move scan_handlers.txt to driver-api/acpi and convert to reST 2019-04-25 23:07:19 +02:00
backlight docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
dmaengine This has been a busy cycle for documentation work. Highlights include: 2020-03-30 12:45:23 -07:00
driver-model docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings 2020-03-10 11:54:04 -06:00
early-userspace docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
firmware Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2020-03-30 16:13:08 -07:00
fpga docs: fpga: document programming fpgas using regions 2018-10-16 11:13:50 +02:00
gpio This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v5.6 kernel cycle: 2020-01-29 09:51:36 -08:00
i3c docs: driver-api: Add I3C documentation 2018-11-12 10:33:49 +01:00
iio docs: Do not seek kerneldoc comments in hw-consumer.h 2019-05-24 14:43:42 -06:00
md docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
mei mei: docs: update mei documentation 2019-06-06 16:51:37 +02:00
memory-devices docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
mmc docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
mtd docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver 2019-09-06 08:51:39 -06:00
nfc docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
nvdimm docs: don't use nested tables 2019-07-15 11:03:04 -03:00
pci Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb() 2019-04-08 12:00:45 +01:00
phy docs: phy: Drop duplicate 'be made' 2019-07-26 08:15:26 -06:00
pm docs: remove extra conf.py files 2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
rapidio docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
serial tty: n_gsm: add ioctl to map serial device to mux'ed tty 2019-09-04 12:43:54 +02:00
soundwire docs: index.rst: don't use genindex for pdf output 2019-07-31 13:31:16 -06:00
thermal Documentation: cpu-idle-cooling: fix a SEVERE docs build failure 2020-01-31 10:50:33 +01:00
usb usb: typec: altmode: Remove the notification chain 2020-02-12 10:51:21 -08:00
xilinx docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
basics.rst docs: Do not seek comments in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h 2019-05-24 14:23:40 -06:00
clk.rst docs: clk: fix struct syntax 2019-06-07 11:35:15 -06:00
component.rst drm/doc: document recommended component helper usage 2019-02-19 12:22:24 +01:00
connector.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
console.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
dcdbas.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
devfreq.rst docs: Add initial documentation for devfreq 2019-11-19 13:16:53 -07:00
device_connection.rst Documentation: driver-api: fix device_connection.rst kernel-doc error 2018-04-27 17:17:34 -06:00
device_link.rst driver core: Add support for linking devices during device addition 2019-10-04 17:29:50 +02:00
device-io.rst Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb() 2019-04-08 12:00:45 +01:00
dma-buf.rst doc: drm: Update references to previously renamed files 2019-10-25 12:46:32 +01:00
edac.rst edac.rst: move concepts dictionary from edac.h 2016-12-15 08:58:12 -02:00
eisa.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
firewire.rst FireWire: add driver-api Introduction section 2018-09-06 09:41:16 -06:00
frame-buffer.rst
generic-counter.rst docs: driver-api: generic-counter: Update Count and Signal data types 2019-10-18 19:47:38 +01:00
hsi.rst
i2c.rst Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2017-07-12 10:04:56 -07:00
index.rst Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual 2020-03-10 11:33:19 -06:00
infiniband.rst infiniband: add a Documentation driver-api chapter for Infiniband 2019-10-22 14:52:56 -03:00
infrastructure.rst docs: No structured comments in kernel/dma/coherent.c 2019-10-01 08:43:21 -06:00
input.rst
interconnect.rst interconnect: Add interconnect_graph file to debugfs 2019-12-16 09:49:54 +02:00
io_ordering.rst Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual 2020-03-10 11:33:19 -06:00
io-mapping.rst Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual 2020-03-10 11:33:15 -06:00
ioctl.rst docs: move core-api/ioctl.rst to driver-api/ 2020-03-10 11:21:08 -06:00
ipmb.rst drivers: ipmi: Support raw i2c packet in IPMB 2019-12-11 13:21:36 -06:00
isa.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
isapnp.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
libata.rst ata: make qc_prep return ata_completion_errors 2019-11-01 08:50:51 -06:00
lightnvm-pblk.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
men-chameleon-bus.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
message-based.rst
misc_devices.rst docs-rst: core_api: move driver-specific stuff to drivers_api 2017-04-02 14:17:43 -06:00
miscellaneous.rst docs: driver-api: Remove trailing blank line 2017-08-07 14:27:45 -06:00
mtdnand.rst mtd: rawnand: Deprecate ->chip_delay 2018-10-03 11:12:25 +02:00
ntb.rst New feature to add support for NTB virtual MSI interrupts, the ability 2019-07-21 09:46:59 -07:00
nvmem.rst nvmem: core: add nvmem_device_find 2019-10-07 09:47:37 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
pinctl.rst docs/pinctrl: fix compile errors in example code 2019-07-29 00:20:09 +02:00
pps.rst docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
pti_intel_mid.rst docs: driver-api: pti_intel_mid: Enable syntax highlighting for C code block 2019-10-18 09:40:13 -06:00
ptp.rst docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
pwm.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
regulator.rst docs: Convert the regulator docbook to RST 2017-01-31 17:31:41 -07:00
rfkill.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
s390-drivers.rst docs: s390: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-11 09:48:14 +02:00
scsi.rst scsi: target: add driver-api document 2018-04-20 19:14:40 -04:00
slimbus.rst slimbus: stream: add stream support 2018-07-07 17:25:23 +02:00
sm501.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
smsc_ece1099.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
sound.rst
spi.rst
switchtec.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
sync_file.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
target.rst docs: No structured comments in target_core_device.c 2019-05-24 15:01:30 -06:00
uio-howto.rst uio: Documentation: Add information on using uio_pdrv_genirq with DT 2019-09-04 13:42:43 +02:00
vfio-mediated-device.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
vfio.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
vme.rst docs: Update VME documentation to include kerneldoc comments 2017-03-17 15:10:49 +09:00
w1.rst There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time 2017-07-03 21:13:25 -07:00
xillybus.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
zorro.rst docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00