From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:27:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AA2634.7020907@m3y3r.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47AA2082.4000402@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> 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.
I'm using elilo-3.6-ia32.efi provided at the elilo homepage. i wasn't
able to create a working efi toolchain :-(
Does elilo-3.6 already do the converting of the memory map, or not?
> 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.
What do you want so say? Does linux support EFI or not?
>
> -hpa
>
mfg
thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 22:15 Latest kernel doesn't boot thomas
2008-02-05 22:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-05 23:57 ` thomas
2008-02-06 20:18 ` Thomas Meyer
2008-02-06 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-06 21:27 ` Thomas Meyer [this message]
2008-02-06 21:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-09 18:39 ` Thomas Meyer
2008-02-11 17:42 ` Jason Fleischli
2008-02-13 2:01 ` Huang, Ying
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