From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3kiQ-0001uo-KS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:16:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3kiL-0007RO-Fr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:16:02 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3kiL-0007RK-2U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:15:57 -0500 References: <0f042e9b-f6a3-27c1-4ca0-94e13f8102d8@gmx.net> <20161104110813.GF9817@stefanha-x1.localdomain> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:15:54 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dennis Luehring , Richard Henderson , Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: qemu-devel , "Richard W.M. Jones" On 11/07/16 08:35, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 04.11.2016 um 20:40 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: >> I guess it is "possible to design a system which can recover from >> this", except noone seems to have bothered, since 2009. (Ditto for the >> proposed "panic-level=X" alternative.) >> >> I've now briefly considered posting a trivial kernel patch for this, >> but having learned about the above commit, I don't think so... > > i tried to get some response on the linux-kernel or initramfs > mailinglist 1-2 weeks ago but no one seems to care > > but i still think it would help alot to if some more known developers > would get involved and send in a patch for this - if only for starting a > discussion about the > > situation > Please report the issue directly to the author of commit 73310a169aeb, that is, "H. Peter Anvin" (the latter is his current email address). Please identify the commit to him and feel free to reference this discussion on qemu-devel, using the mailing list archive. If Peter still believes the current logic is valid, no work (= patch) will have been in vain. If Peter agrees the current logic is wrong after all, then he should be able to write a patch for you that he won't dislike (so several iterations won't be necessary for the patch). Thanks Laszlo