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Commit 0e470763 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi

Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "A bit more going on than usual in the EFI subsystem. The main driver
  for this has been the introduction of the LoonArch architecture last
  cycle, which inspired some cleanup and refactoring of the EFI code.
  Another driver for EFI changes this cycle and in the future is
  confidential compute.

  The LoongArch architecture does not use either struct bootparams or DT
  natively [yet], and so passing information between the EFI stub and
  the core kernel using either of those is undesirable. And in general,
  overloading DT has been a source of issues on arm64, so using DT for
  this on new architectures is a to avoid for the time being (even if we
  might converge on something DT based for non-x86 architectures in the
  future). For this reason, in addition to the patch that enables EFI
  boot for LoongArch, there are a number of refactoring patches applied
  on top of which se...
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