Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:01:45 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid" |
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On 12/11/2011 06:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote: >> This hangs my MacBook Air at boot time; I get no console messages at >> all. I reverted this on top of -rc5 and my machine boots again. > > Interesting. Current -git works for me on my 11" Macbook Air. Which > should be identical to yours. This is the 4GB RAM, 128GB disk version, > no? > > But I'm running OpenSUSE, and you're running Debian, right? And our > kernel configs are probably wildly different, since I tend to try to > boot a fairly minimal set. > > That said, if you've verified that if fails for you, I guess we should > revert regardless. Matt, any suggestions for tests to do? >
Also... I'd like to know what machines, if any, would break without the patch, so we can figure out what has to be tested.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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