From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:23:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EAD0F2.7090101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140130221950.GJ3105@sgi.com>
On 01/30/2014 02:19 PM, Alex Thorlton wrote:
>
> 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.
>
That is interesting, as it is definitely not the direction we have been
going in within the Linux community.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 22:24 UTC|newest]
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2014-01-30 22:19 ` [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes Alex Thorlton
2014-01-30 22:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-31 10:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-31 14:02 ` Russ Anderson
2014-01-31 14:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-31 14:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-05 21:45 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-02-05 23:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-11 22:19 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-02-11 22:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-31 8:04 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-31 13:53 ` Russ Anderson
2014-01-23 22:11 Alex Thorlton
2014-01-23 22:48 ` Borislav Petkov
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