From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid"
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:29:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE639E2.6060307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86mxaxiu34.fsf@sumi.keithp.com>
On 12/12/2011 09:21 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:50:52 -0800, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Ahh. And the reason it works for me is that I don't even have
>> "CONFIG_EFI" enabled, much less EFI debugging. So I never trigger
>> the buggy code at all.
>
> I foolishly assumed that an EFI machine required CONFIG_EFI...
>
Machines with EFI only do.
Machines which support BIOS emulation don't (and are generally better
off booted in that mode...)
It depends mostly if you have and EFI or a BIOS bootloader.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 0:12 [PATCH] Revert "x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid" Keith Packard
2011-12-12 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-12 3:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-12 3:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 3:31 ` Keith Packard
2011-12-12 3:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-12 3:43 ` Keith Packard
2011-12-12 10:01 ` Matt Fleming
2011-12-12 16:35 ` Keith Packard
2011-12-12 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-12 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-12 17:21 ` Keith Packard
2011-12-12 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-12 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-15 15:29 ` Matt Fleming
2012-01-16 9:22 ` Matt Fleming
2012-01-16 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 9:49 ` Matt Fleming
2012-01-16 9:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 10:16 ` Matt Fleming
2012-01-16 14:54 ` [tip:x86/efi] x86/efi: Delete efi_ioremap() and fix CONFIG_X86_32 oops tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2012-02-08 12:46 ` [PATCH] Revert "x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid" Matt Fleming
2012-02-08 17:15 ` Keith Packard
2012-02-15 12:13 ` Matt Fleming
2012-02-17 11:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 10:01 ` Matt Fleming
2011-12-12 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-12 17:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 3:06 ` Ingo Molnar
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4EE639E2.6060307@zytor.com \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com \
--cc=keithp@keithp.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=matt@console-pimps.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=mjg@redhat.com \
--cc=rui.zhang@intel.com \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.