extensible firmware interface (efi) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
• R Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst
• F arch/*/include/asm/efi.h
• F arch/*/kernel/efi.c
• F arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S
• F arch/x86/platform/efi/
• F drivers/firmware/efi/
• F include/linux/efi*.h
• X drivers/firmware/efi/cper*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-arch (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING5d [PATCH 16/22] efi: mark efi_mm as a kernel mm
  2026-07-14 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 8/8] treewide: Stop defining __ASSEMBLY__ for assembler files
  2026-04-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH v6 3/4] atomic: Add alignment check to instrumented atomic operations
  2025-12-31 · Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
• STALE246d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH V3 14/14] LoongArch: Adjust build infrastructure for 32BIT/64BIT
  2025-11-22 · Huacai Chen <hidden>
• STALE246d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH V3 02/14] LoongArch: Add adaptive CSR accessors for 32BIT/64BIT
  2025-11-22 · Huacai Chen <hidden>
• STALE242d [PATCH v4 9/9] treewide: Stop defining __ASSEMBLY__ for assembler files
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• STALE252d [PATCH V2 14/14] LoongArch: Adjust build infrastructure for 32BIT/64BIT
  2025-11-18 · Huacai Chen <hidden>
• STALE252d [PATCH V2 02/14] LoongArch: Add adaptive CSR accessors for 32BIT/64BIT
  2025-11-18 · Huacai Chen <hidden>
• STALE293d [PATCH RESEND 55/62] init: rename CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to CONFIG_INITRAMFS
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE293d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE293d [PATCH RESEND 25/62] init: rename phys_initrd_{start,size} to phys_external_initramfs_{start,size}
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE293d [PATCH RESEND 11/62] init, efi: remove "noinitrd" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE496d [PATCH RFC v2 22/29] mm: asi: exit ASI before accessing CR3 from C code where appropriate
  2025-01-10 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE588d [RFC PATCH 27/28] x86/kernel: Switch to PIE linking for the core kernel
  2024-09-25 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH 2/3] kbuild, llvm-cov: disable instrumentation in odd or sensitive code
  2024-08-24 · Wentao Zhang <hidden>
• STALE667d [PATCH 6/6] Add Propeller configuration for kernel build.
  2024-07-28 · Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
• STALE789d [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
  2024-05-06 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
• STALE885d [PATCH v5 13/16] x86/boot: Move mem_encrypt= parsing to the decompressor
  2024-02-21 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE885d [PATCH v5 12/16] efi/libstub: Add generic support for parsing mem_encrypt=
  2024-02-21 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE890d [PATCH v4 08/11] x86/boot: Move mem_encrypt= parsing to the decompressor
  2024-02-13 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE890d [PATCH v4 07/11] efi/libstub: Add generic support for parsing mem_encrypt=
  2024-02-13 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE898d [PATCH v3 02/19] x86/boot: Move mem_encrypt= parsing to the decompressor
  2024-01-29 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE898d [PATCH v3 01/19] efi/libstub: Add generic support for parsing mem_encrypt=
  2024-01-29 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE911d LANDED [PATCH v5 3/4] arch/x86: Implement arch_ima_efi_boot_mode() in source file
  2024-01-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE929d [PATCH 3/3] treewide: Update LLVM Bugzilla links
  2024-01-09 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE930d [PATCH v4 3/4] arch/x86: Implement arch_ima_efi_boot_mode() in source file
  2024-01-08 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE934d [PATCH v3 3/4] arch/x86: Implement arch_ima_efi_boot_mode() in source file
  2024-01-04 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE958d [PATCH 1/3] arch/x86: Move struct pci_setup_rom into pci_setup.h
  2023-12-06 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 8/8] treewide: Stop defining __ASSEMBLY__ for assembler files
  2026-04-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>