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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data
    On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 01:26:05PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
    > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I did write an email to x86@kernel.org, which sadly seems to have no
    > mailing list archive, I wonder if my problem has anything to do with the
    > patches you are discussing here:
    >
    > I found this reply, which contains my original email in my inbox:
    >
    > Subject: Kernel v5.5 doesn't boot on my x86 laptop
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm using an old MacBookPro1,1 to run Fedora 30 (the last one to support
    > x86) and a upstream up-to-date kernel, currently 5.4.16.
    >
    > I'm using sd-boot to boot into an EFI-enabled kernel which contains
    > an embedded initram cpio image (because loading the image from kernel's
    > EFI stub doesn't seem to work for some unknown reason, I tried to debug
    > this but my early debugging foo is too weak).
    >
    > Kernel 5.4.x works correctly with this setup (but resuming from disk
    > seems to have broken in 5.4.x or maybe even earlier - when resuming from
    > disk I get all kind of funky OOPSes/errors, but that's another story, hopefully
    > 5.5.x was fixed in this regards).
    >
    > So I did have a look at the commits under arch/x86/boot and "x86/boot:
    > Introduce setup_indirect" (b3c72fc9a78e74161f9d05ef7191706060628f8c) did
    > talk about "bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S", so I
    > did revert above commit and I was finally able to boot into v5.5 kernel!
    >
    > So either sd-boot also needs an upgrade or this commit does break
    > something.
    > Any help is welcome, don't hesitate to get in contact with me if you
    > have any questions.
    >
    > mfg
    > thomas
    >

    If it is a problem with 5.5, it would be unrelated to this thread, which
    is about problems introduced by patches for the upcoming 5.7.

    Thanks.

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