linux-kernel - Re: Revert commit 5dcd14ecd4 - breaks EFI boot with SLES11 elilo.efi

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:09:10 -0600
From:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, hpa@....com,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert commit 5dcd14ecd4 - breaks EFI boot with SLES11
 elilo.efi

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:05:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 12:52 PM, Robin Holt wrote:
> > If I revert that commit (5dcd14ecd4), It completes boot fine.  With that
> > commit applied, by ACPI tables (as well as much else) seems to be
> > completely messed up.  The ACPI XSDT table is removed, all the SRAT
> > is gone.  Much of the remaining ACPI table is messed up.  Some of the
> > EFI memory map is whacked.
> > 
> > If I change the following, things work:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
> > index 5b5e9cb..85337ab 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
> > @@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params)
> >  {
> >         if (boot_params->sentinel) {
> >                 /*fields in boot_params are not valid, clear them */
> > +#if 0
> >                 memset(&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header, 0,
> >                        (char *)&boot_params->alt_mem_k -
> >                         (char *)&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header);
> > +#endif
> >                 memset(&boot_params->kbd_status, 0,
> >                        (char *)&boot_params->hdr -
> >                        (char *)&boot_params->kbd_status);
> > 
> 
> Sounds like ELILO needs to be fixed to pass the boot_params correctly.
> 
> To support existing ELILO, it would be good to know exactly *which*
> fields ELILO pass in as garbage (because it does, that is why ->sentinel
> is nonzero) and use its bootloader ID to apply the proper brainwhack for
> the legacy versions.

Any idea how I can dump that information?

Robin
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