Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock | From | Matt Fleming <> | Date | Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:18:03 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 14:12 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > Bottom line - the fix here is needed for 32-bit booting only (and > hence isn't - afaic - as critical as I first thought). But the adjustment > I'm holding is a necessary one (and I don't even understand why, > when 32- and 64-bit EFI code got merged, this was left 32-bit only), > and the NX consolidation change needs to be fixed too (basically as > a prerequisite).
But the rtc-lock patch is independent and can be merged on its own, right? Sure the other issues need fixing but there's no sense in holding up the rtc-lock patch, since with it applied my machine actually boots.
-- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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