linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support

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Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:44:55 +0100
From:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support

Hey Matt,

On 11/15/2011 07:51 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 22:06 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Seems initrd is failing for me. Is there any limitation on the size of
>> the initrd? The default one fedora generates for my kernel is 46mb. It
>> loads the kernel, but it reboots before it gets to userspace. Loading
>> the kernel and initrd with grub2-efi works. EFI booting without initrd
>> works too.
> Sorry it took me so long to reply to this! Could you try version 6 of
> this patch?
>
> From 5f1a572e59915daaa263093f0a2f180c88fa8504 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:24:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH v6] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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> v6:
>
>  - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max.
>
When I tested this with v3.2-rc2 it didn't boot, it hung before it initialized the kernel.
Without initrd it works fine, though.

~Maarten
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