linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

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Message-ID: <20140131100722.GA21873@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:07:22 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/30/2014 02:19 PM, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > 
> That is interesting, as it is definitely not the direction we have been
> going in within the Linux community.

Right, for the new scheme to work, we'll have to map the region
containing the code for uv_systab->function in order to do all those
uv_bios_call()'s. Physical/virtual shouldn't matter all that much
because we map the region *both* as a 1:1 map and in virtual space too.

Can SGI please give us a reliable way to do that during boot?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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