From: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:53:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140131135355.GB22498@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140131080428.GA29136@console-pimps.org>
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:04:28AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> > Re-adding lkml.
>
> Also add linux-efi.
>
> > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because
> > it does not work in physical mode. If you ever see "virtefi"
> > on the RHEL bootline it is because RH switched the default
> > to physical mode, which caused UV to not boot. "virtefi"
> > forced it back to virtual mode.
>
> Do you have details of the failure, links to bug reports? Is it a
> limitation of the firmware?
That was a non-upstream regression in the distro kernel. The
3.13 community kernel was boots fine. The current problem is a
regression introduced in this merge window which needs to be fixed.
--
Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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2014-01-30 22:19 ` [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes Alex Thorlton
2014-01-30 22:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-31 10:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-31 14:02 ` Russ Anderson
2014-01-31 14:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-31 14:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-05 21:45 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-02-05 23:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-11 22:19 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-02-11 22:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-31 8:04 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-31 13:53 ` Russ Anderson [this message]
2014-01-23 22:11 Alex Thorlton
2014-01-23 22:48 ` Borislav Petkov
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