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<title>Prepare v2025.10-rc1</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T00:23:01+00:00</updated>
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<name>Tom Rini</name>
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<published>2025-07-29T00:23:01+00:00</published>
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<title>efi: Create a new CONFIG_EFI</title>
<updated>2025-07-26T05:34:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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Create a Kconfig which indicates that EFI functionality is in use,
either as a client (EFI app / stub) or provider (EFI loader). This will
make it easier to share code between these two parts of U-Boot

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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Create a Kconfig which indicates that EFI functionality is in use,
either as a client (EFI app / stub) or provider (EFI loader). This will
make it easier to share code between these two parts of U-Boot

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>efi: Rename CONFIG_EFI to CONFIG_EFI_CLIENT</title>
<updated>2025-07-26T05:34:28+00:00</updated>
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<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2025-05-28T16:03:15+00:00</published>
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The generic name 'EFI' would be more useful for common EFI features. At
present it just refers to the EFI app and stub, which is confusing.

Rename it to EFI_CLIENT

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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The generic name 'EFI' would be more useful for common EFI features. At
present it just refers to the EFI app and stub, which is confusing.

Rename it to EFI_CLIENT

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>efi: Rename the lib/efi directory</title>
<updated>2025-07-26T05:29:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2025-05-28T16:03:14+00:00</published>
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This directory was created when U-Boot gained the ability to run as an
EFI app in 2015. Since then the EFI-loader feature has been added.

The code in lib/efi is not actually used by the loader, so the name is
confusing.

Rename the directory to efi_client to indicate that it includes files
just for U-Boot being a client of EFI, i.e. the EFI app and stub.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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This directory was created when U-Boot gained the ability to run as an
EFI app in 2015. Since then the EFI-loader feature has been added.

The code in lib/efi is not actually used by the loader, so the name is
confusing.

Rename the directory to efi_client to indicate that it includes files
just for U-Boot being a client of EFI, i.e. the EFI app and stub.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>Merge patch series "kbuild: Update Makefile.extrawarn to 5.1"</title>
<updated>2025-07-08T19:10:12+00:00</updated>
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<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-07-08T19:10:12+00:00</published>
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This series from Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt; largely
finishes the re-sync with the Linux Kernel v5.1 kbuild system.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627185723.342553-1-ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
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This series from Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt; largely
finishes the re-sync with the Linux Kernel v5.1 kbuild system.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627185723.342553-1-ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
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<title>kbuild: Bump the build system to 5.1</title>
<updated>2025-07-08T19:10:03+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ilias Apalodimas</name>
<email>ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2025-06-27T18:57:16+00:00</published>
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Our last sync with the kernel was 5.1. Even that was a partial one
as some patches from 4.x kernels were already missing making the
transition to a modern kbuild infeasible.

We are so out of sync now, that tracking the patches and backporting
them one by one makes little sense and it's going to take ages.

This is an attempt to sync up Makefile[.lib/.kbuild].
Unfortunately due to sheer amount of patches this is not easy to review,
but that's what we decided during a community call.

One of the biggest changes is get rid of partial linking entirely and
build .a archives isntead of .o.
We diaviate from the kernel on that. Instead of calling a custom script
to create the archive symbol table, we call ar with rcTP (isntead of
rcSTP) since we want a resulting archive that's sauble with the linker.

The only affected platforms are PPC ones. Unfortunately I don't have any
of them around to test, but the objdump of the resulting files --
arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.[oa] looks identical.

Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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Our last sync with the kernel was 5.1. Even that was a partial one
as some patches from 4.x kernels were already missing making the
transition to a modern kbuild infeasible.

We are so out of sync now, that tracking the patches and backporting
them one by one makes little sense and it's going to take ages.

This is an attempt to sync up Makefile[.lib/.kbuild].
Unfortunately due to sheer amount of patches this is not easy to review,
but that's what we decided during a community call.

One of the biggest changes is get rid of partial linking entirely and
build .a archives isntead of .o.
We diaviate from the kernel on that. Instead of calling a custom script
to create the archive symbol table, we call ar with rcTP (isntead of
rcSTP) since we want a resulting archive that's sauble with the linker.

The only affected platforms are PPC ones. Unfortunately I don't have any
of them around to test, but the objdump of the resulting files --
arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.[oa] looks identical.

Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'next'</title>
<updated>2025-07-07T20:10:59+00:00</updated>
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<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-07-07T20:10:59+00:00</published>
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<title>Prepare v2025.07</title>
<updated>2025-07-07T15:48:28+00:00</updated>
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<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-07-07T15:48:28+00:00</published>
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<title>doc: mention that extlinux.conf can use environment in "append"</title>
<updated>2025-06-28T11:03:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fiona Klute</name>
<email>fiona.klute@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2025-06-23T11:38:01+00:00</published>
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This option is very useful for A/B boot setups with read-only
filesystems: Letting U-Boot fill in the rootfs (and possibly related
parameters) allows keeping all boot parameters except the actual slot
selection in the extlinux.conf file, where they can be updated easily.

Signed-off-by: Fiona Klute &lt;fiona.klute@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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This option is very useful for A/B boot setups with read-only
filesystems: Letting U-Boot fill in the rootfs (and possibly related
parameters) allows keeping all boot parameters except the actual slot
selection in the extlinux.conf file, where they can be updated easily.

Signed-off-by: Fiona Klute &lt;fiona.klute@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<title>Merge patch series "lmb: use a single API for all allocations"</title>
<updated>2025-06-25T15:57:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-06-25T15:57:01+00:00</published>
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Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt; says:

The LMB module has a bunch for API's which are used for allocating
memory. There are a couple of API's for requesting memory, and two
more for reserving regions of memory. Replace these different API's
with a single one, lmb_alloc_mem(). The type of allocation to be made
is specified through one of the parameters to the function.

Additionally, the two API's for reserving regions of memory,
lmb_reserve() and lmb_alloc_addr() are the same with one
difference. One can reserve any memory region with lmb_reserve(),
while lmb_alloc_addr() actually checks that the memory region being
requested is part of the LMB memory map. Reserving memory that is not
part of the LMB memory map is pretty futile -- the allocation
functions do not allocate memory which has not been added to the LMB
memory map.

This series also removes the functionality allowing for reserving
memory regions outside the LMB memory map. Any request for reserving a
region of memory outside the LMB memory map now returns an -EINVAL
error.

Certain places in the common code using the LMB API's were not
checking the return value of the functions. Checks have been added for
them. There are some calls being made from the architecture/platform
specific code which too do not check the return value. Those have been
kept the same, as I do not have the platform with me to check if it
causes any issues on those platforms.

In addition, there is a patch which refactors code in
lmb_overlaps_region() and lmb_can_reserve_region() so that both
functionalities can be put in a single function, lmb_overlap_checks().

Finally, a new patch has been added which checks the return value of
the lmb allocation function before copying the device-tree to the
allocated address.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250617104346.1379981-1-sughosh.ganu@linaro.org
[trini: Rework arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c merge]
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Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt; says:

The LMB module has a bunch for API's which are used for allocating
memory. There are a couple of API's for requesting memory, and two
more for reserving regions of memory. Replace these different API's
with a single one, lmb_alloc_mem(). The type of allocation to be made
is specified through one of the parameters to the function.

Additionally, the two API's for reserving regions of memory,
lmb_reserve() and lmb_alloc_addr() are the same with one
difference. One can reserve any memory region with lmb_reserve(),
while lmb_alloc_addr() actually checks that the memory region being
requested is part of the LMB memory map. Reserving memory that is not
part of the LMB memory map is pretty futile -- the allocation
functions do not allocate memory which has not been added to the LMB
memory map.

This series also removes the functionality allowing for reserving
memory regions outside the LMB memory map. Any request for reserving a
region of memory outside the LMB memory map now returns an -EINVAL
error.

Certain places in the common code using the LMB API's were not
checking the return value of the functions. Checks have been added for
them. There are some calls being made from the architecture/platform
specific code which too do not check the return value. Those have been
kept the same, as I do not have the platform with me to check if it
causes any issues on those platforms.

In addition, there is a patch which refactors code in
lmb_overlaps_region() and lmb_can_reserve_region() so that both
functionalities can be put in a single function, lmb_overlap_checks().

Finally, a new patch has been added which checks the return value of
the lmb allocation function before copying the device-tree to the
allocated address.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250617104346.1379981-1-sughosh.ganu@linaro.org
[trini: Rework arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c merge]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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