From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>,
matt.fleming@intel.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:05:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130524210534.GA15466@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130524170214.GA30179@sgi.com>
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:02:15PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> > Russ,
> >
> > Can we open a bug for the BIOS folks and see if we can get this addressed?
>
> I already talked with them. It is not in an area that we
> normally change, so if there is a bug may be in the Intel
> reference code. More investigation is needed to track down
> the actual problem, and that could take help from Intel.
>
> Regardless of that, it is a kernel patch that triggers the
> problem. This isn't the first time a kernel change does
> the "right thing" but trips across questionable bios/EFI/bootloader
> implementation. That still makes it a kernel bug.
>
> I'm still digging to better understand the root problem.
When we rebased the Fedora 18 kernel to 3.9 we had a bunch of reports
from people who can no longer boot with what looks like similar symptoms.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964335
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-24 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 16:27 [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code Russ Anderson
2013-05-23 11:58 ` Matt Fleming
2013-05-23 20:32 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-24 7:43 ` Matt Fleming
2013-05-24 11:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-24 11:40 ` Matt Fleming
2013-05-24 16:11 ` Robin Holt
2013-05-24 17:02 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-24 21:05 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-05-27 4:27 ` joeyli
2013-05-27 4:32 ` joeyli
2013-05-28 2:43 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-24 20:05 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-24 20:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-24 20:49 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-28 10:50 ` Matt Fleming
2013-05-28 10:53 ` Matt Fleming
2013-05-28 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-29 21:01 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-29 22:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-05-29 22:46 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-29 22:53 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-05-30 2:16 ` joeyli
2013-05-30 22:17 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-30 22:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-30 22:28 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-30 22:30 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-05-31 2:17 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-31 3:28 ` joeyli
2013-05-30 22:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-31 2:54 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-31 10:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-30 22:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-05-31 10:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-31 11:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-05-31 11:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-31 11:54 ` Josh Boyer
2013-05-31 12:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-31 12:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-31 14:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-31 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2013-05-31 14:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-31 14:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-31 15:43 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-31 16:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-31 17:35 ` James Bottomley
2013-05-31 22:57 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-31 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-31 23:30 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-06-01 0:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-01 4:20 ` Russ Anderson
2013-06-01 4:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-01 11:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-01 14:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-30 2:38 ` joeyli
2013-05-23 22:23 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-24 7:45 ` Matt Fleming
2013-05-29 20:16 ` Russ Anderson
2013-05-31 14:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
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