linux-kernel - Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot

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Date:	Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:02:58 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot

Thomas Meyer wrote:
> 
> I can not revert the commit e429795c68d3001ecae74f6465420c9f043b0ece. it 
> gave me errors.
> but i'm also not sure what could be wrong with this commit!
> 
> my first idea was that the commit 
> "[2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e] x86 boot: use E820 memory 
> map on EFI 32 platform" is the offender, because the macbook pro doesn't 
> provide a e820 memory map at all. but bisect showed that i'm wrong here?!
> 

ELILO is expected to convert the memory map from EFI to e820 format.

EFI32 is likely to be poorly supported, since Apple is likely to be the 
only platform to *ever* ship EFI32 in mass production, and it has a BIOS 
emulation layer available.

	-hpa
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