From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Anderson Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:53:55 -0600 Message-ID: <20140131135355.GB22498@sgi.com> References: <20140124184842.GD11788@pd.tnic> <20140124191709.GT18196@sgi.com> <20140127222129.GK6839@pd.tnic> <20140128110552.GA815@pd.tnic> <20140128200754.GZ18196@sgi.com> <20140128225905.GN815@pd.tnic> <20140128234036.GB18196@sgi.com> <20140129141822.GC24887@pd.tnic> <20140130221950.GJ3105@sgi.com> <20140131080428.GA29136@console-pimps.org> Reply-To: Russ Anderson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140131080428.GA29136-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Matt Fleming Cc: Alex Thorlton , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:04:28AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > Re-adding lkml. > > Also add linux-efi. > > > 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. > > Do you have details of the failure, links to bug reports? Is it a > limitation of the firmware? That was a non-upstream regression in the distro kernel. The 3.13 community kernel was boots fine. The current problem is a regression introduced in this merge window which needs to be fixed. -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org