[PATCH v2 00/16] efi_loader: add secure boot support

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 05:28:59PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:31:26AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > On 12/4/19 3:43 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > >Tom, Simon, Heinrich,
> > >
> > >I have submitted three major patch sets for UEFI secure boot:
> > >* x509/pkcs7 parser
> > >* RSA library extension
> > >* UEFI secure boot
> > >
> > >I have no technical issues to fix now and have seen only a few minor
> > >comments on them (if I confirm that you have no more comments,
> > >I can submit new version almost immediately).
> > >Considering those, can I expect that those patches be merged
> > >in v2020.01?
> > >
> > >If not, do you need to have more time for your reviewing?
> > >What else do you expect from my side to accelerate the upstream?
> > 
> > We are reaching the end of the release cycle. So do not expect any of
> > these patch series to be merged in v2020.01.
> > cf. https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ReleaseCycle
> 
> I have often seen several patches (not bug fix) merged
> even after "merge window".
> Anyway,

Please keep pushing back on me when you see "large" changes go in later
than probably should.  I try and hold to what I say, but I don't always
make it.

> > To my understanding the UEFI secure boot series depends on the other two
> > so it must be merged last.
> 
> So once the first two patch set are accepted by the maintainers,
> do you agree to merging the third one (i.e. secure boot patch itself)
> promptly?
>         -> Heinrich
> 
> As I said, I have had no technical issues on the first two patches
> and haven't heard any comments/objections from the maintainers so far.
> Are you willing to accept them for the next release?
>         -> Tom, Simon

My hope is to put some of this in to -next and see what comes out.  As I
send this I'm doing what I hope will be a last test of the MTD clean up
series, which has been what's eating all of my "try something" cycles
since the end of Oct.

-- 
Tom
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