linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

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Message-ID: <20130306195457.GA449@polaris.bitmath.org>
Date:	Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:54:57 +0100
From:	"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@...omail.se>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

> >> Can you check bootloader like grub.efi ?
> > 
> > I checked, same story. I tried without EFI_STUB, no joy. I ran with
> > and without nouveau, just in case. Without the patch, everything
> > works. With the patch, nothing works, and no output at all.
> > 
> > With a bit of luck, I could maybe get the first lines of output using
> > grub.efi, but frankly I cannot remember if that ever worked on this
> > machine.
> > 
> 
> A simpler one is efilinux:
> 
> https://github.com/mfleming/efilinux

Sadly, that one does not seem to boot at all on this machine (picked
it up in arch linux, so obvisouly it works for someone).

I have started applying portions of the patch to see what
happens. Adding early_alloc_pgt_buf() in setup_arch() seems to work,
which limits the problem to the actual init function.

Henrik
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