On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:48:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/30/2012 06:30 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:37:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 17:19 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > >>> The patch below does not apply to the 3.3-stable tree. > >>> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm > >>> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit > >>> id to <[email protected]>. > >> [...] > >> > >> Having just backported the EFI stub feature to 3.2, I can say that > >> you'll need to cherry-pick these in front of it: > >> > >> c7b738351ba92f48b943ac59aff6b5b0f17f37c9 x86, efi: Fix pointer math issue > >> in handle_ramdisks() > >> a07f7672d7cf0ff0d6e548a9feb6e0bd016d9c6c tools/include: Add byteshift > >> headers for endian access > >> 12871c568305a0b20f116315479a18cd46882e9b x86, mkpiggy: Don't open code > >> put_unaligned_le32() > >> d40f833630a1299fd377408dc8d8fac370d621b0 x86, boot: Restrict CFLAGS for > >> hostprogs > >> 92f42c50f227ad228f815a8f4eec872524dae3a5 x86, efi: Fix endian issues and > >> unaligned accesses > >> 446e1c86d51d0823e003a43a2b85c430efce2733 x86, boot: Correct CFLAGS for > >> hostprogs > > > > Hm, are these all really "needed" for 3.3 then? I'll be glad to queue > > them up, but with the advent of 3.4 pretty soon now, is this necessary? > > > > Note: the set above are needed if you want to cross-compile *any* x86 > kernel on a bigendian architecture, not just EFI. It's up to you if > that is high enough of a priority for stable.
I think all of these are valid fixes for the 3.3-stable tree, so I've included all of them, and the original patch that caused problems here. Thanks Ben for the list above, and Peter, thanks for the backport, but I figured it would be best to have all of the fixes here to be safer. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
