From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Jérôme Carretero" <cJ-ko@zougloub.eu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Regression] "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" prevents my machine from booting
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:28:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <501EF3A2.20200@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120805172903.5f8bb24c@zougloub.eu>
On 08/05/2012 02:29 PM, Jérôme Carretero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My PC (AMD Bulldozer + Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX) booted fine from UEFI
> and it broke between v3.5 and v3.6-rc1.
> Other machines with old BIOSes booted fine so I looked into EFI-related
> patches trying to revert them, because I didn't know what else to do.
>
> Bingo, bacef661: x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock.
>
> At the moment I reverted this commit after v3.6-rc1-133-g42a579a,
> and it boots fine.
>
> This really not my domain so tell me if I can help testing.
>
Thank you... we were aware of the problem but had not been able to
reproduce it, so we had hoped someone would bisect or otherwise identify
the faulty patch.
-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:[~2012-08-05 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 21:29 [Regression] "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" prevents my machine from booting Jérôme Carretero
2012-08-05 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-06 6:44 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 12:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-06 13:08 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 13:16 ` Jérôme Carretero
2012-08-06 13:25 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-06 23:29 ` Jérôme Carretero
2012-08-07 7:05 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 2:32 ` Jérôme Carretero
2012-08-07 3:06 ` Jérôme Carretero
2012-08-07 7:14 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-07 9:30 ` Matt Fleming
2012-08-07 10:50 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-09 8:51 ` Matt Fleming
2012-08-10 19:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-08-10 19:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 14:16 ` Matt Fleming
2012-08-10 3:49 ` Jérôme Carretero
2012-08-14 19:43 ` [tip:x86/urgent] Revert "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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