Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:36:57 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system |
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On 06/08/2011 01:30 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On 06/08/2011 01:09 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:03:25PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>> On 06/08/2011 12:52 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>>>> On 06/08/2011 12:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>>>>>> On 06/08/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>>>>>>>>> what former? you can not fix some corner case by breaking most other cases. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> All Dell laptops, all new Apples, some Lenovos, various Intel server >>>>>>>>> platforms. That I've found so far. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> do you mean before that patch, all those machine will not boot linux kernel with UEFI support? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Correct. >>>>>> >>>>>> with or without EFI runtime services? >>>>> >>>>> They'll boot with noefi, but that's useless because there's then no way >>>>> to configure a bootloader. >>>> >>>> efibootmgr will need boot services in addition to run-time services? >>> >>> No, SetVirtualAddressMap() calls into boot services. This is code, not >>> data. We have no control over what it does. >> >> Maybe you can parse efimeminfo in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S to find right decompress position for kernel. > > Hm. I'll take a look into that. Thanks!
or just let bootloader to mark those boot services just like run-time services in e820 table or setupdata?
Yinghai
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