Re: Linux 3.9-rc1

Henrik Rydberg
2013-03-06T20:42:00Z

> >> >> Can you check bootloader like grub.efi ?
> >> >
> >> > I checked, same story. I tried without EFI_STUB, no joy. I ran with
> >> > and without nouveau, just in case. Without the patch, everything
> >> > works. With the patch, nothing works, and no output at all.
> >> >
> >> > With a bit of luck, I could maybe get the first lines of output using
> >> > grub.efi, but frankly I cannot remember if that ever worked on this
> >> > machine.
>
> Found one bug about real_end calculating, it should be PMD_SIZE align.
> Otherwise in extreme case we could have less then 2M for the first step.
> In your case is about only (1M - 32k) for first step.
>
> Please try attached patch.

Bingo. Excellent, thank you Yinghai. I verified that it also boots on
top of Linus' tree, so you may add

Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>

to the final result.

Cheers,
Henrik