Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot

H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-06T21:03:26Z

Thomas Meyer wrote:
>
> I can not revert the commit e429795c68d3001ecae74f6465420c9f043b0ece. it
> gave me errors.
> but i'm also not sure what could be wrong with this commit!
>
> my first idea was that the commit
> "[2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e] x86 boot: use E820 memory
> map on EFI 32 platform" is the offender, because the macbook pro doesn't
> provide a e820 memory map at all. but bisect showed that i'm wrong here?!
>

ELILO is expected to convert the memory map from EFI to e820 format.

EFI32 is likely to be poorly supported, since Apple is likely to be the
only platform to *ever* ship EFI32 in mass production, and it has a BIOS
emulation layer available.

-hpa