Comment # 11
on bug 63865
from Alex Deucher
(In reply to comment #9)
> The issue can be reliably reproduced on my E-450. I bisected it to:
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> commit f9a37be0f02a943d63e3346b19f9c9d8d91826cb
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> x86: Use PCI setup data
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> EFI can provide PCI ROMs out of band via boot services, which may not be
> available after boot. Add support for using the data handed off to us by
> the boot stub or bootloader.
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The version grabbed from boot services hasn't been patches by the sbios yet so
it's not usable by the driver. Macs need the boot services copy since they
don't provide a way to access it after the OS loads. On non-Macs we have a
method to fetch the proper vbios via acpi so we don't need this.