From: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:44:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECC4207.3010607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com>
Hey Matt,
On 11/15/2011 07:51 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 22:06 +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Seems initrd is failing for me. Is there any limitation on the size of
>> the initrd? The default one fedora generates for my kernel is 46mb. It
>> loads the kernel, but it reboots before it gets to userspace. Loading
>> the kernel and initrd with grub2-efi works. EFI booting without initrd
>> works too.
> Sorry it took me so long to reply to this! Could you try version 6 of
> this patch?
>
> From 5f1a572e59915daaa263093f0a2f180c88fa8504 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:24:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH v6] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support
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>
> v6:
>
> - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max.
>
When I tested this with v3.2-rc2 it didn't boot, it hung before it initialized the kernel.
Without initrd it works fine, though.
~Maarten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 10:40 [PATCH v5 00/10] x86 EFI boot stub Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: Add missing bzImage fields to struct setup_header Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86, efi: Make efi_call_phys_prelog() CONFIG_RELOCATABLE-aware Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86: Don't use magic strings for EFI loader signature Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 04/10] efi.h: Add struct definition for boot time services Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] efi.h: Add efi_image_loaded_t Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] efi.h: Add allocation types for boottime->allocate_pages() Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] efi.h: Add graphics protocol guids Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH 08/10] efi.h: Add boottime->locate_handle search types Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] efi: Add EFI file I/O data types Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 10:40 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] x86, efi: EFI boot stub support Matt Fleming
2011-10-17 16:39 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-10-17 18:28 ` Matt Fleming
2011-10-18 6:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-17 20:06 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-15 18:51 ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-23 0:44 ` Maarten Lankhorst [this message]
2011-11-23 19:27 ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-24 14:43 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-24 16:58 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-24 20:56 ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-24 21:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-24 21:31 ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-25 1:37 ` [PATCH] x86, efi: Break up large initrd reads Maarten Lankhorst
2011-11-25 8:48 ` Matt Fleming
2011-12-12 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-13 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:33 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-12-14 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-16 12:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Maarten Lankhorst
2011-12-16 18:43 ` [tip:x86/efi] " tip-bot for Maarten Lankhorst
2011-12-10 2:37 ` [tip:x86/efi] x86: Add missing bzImage fields to struct setup_header tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:38 ` [tip:x86/efi] x86: Don't use magic strings for EFI loader signature tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:38 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add struct definition for boot time services tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:39 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add efi_image_loaded_t tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:40 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add allocation types for boottime->allocate_pages() tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:41 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add graphics protocol guids tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:42 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi.h: Add boottime->locate_handle search types tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2011-12-10 2:42 ` [tip:x86/efi] efi: Add EFI file I/O data types tip-bot for Matt Fleming
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