Re: Kernel panics (in QEMU) when booting with GRUB2 + OVMF + QEMU.

2015-08-15 Thread Mark Lee
On Saturday, August 15, 2015 08:31:42 PM Jordan Uggla wrote: > Specifically, while Mark entered something like "initrd > /boot/initramfs-foo-bar", and everything he had typed was echoed back > to him on screen as expected, the error message he received was (if I > recall correctly) something about

Re: Kernel panics (in QEMU) when booting with GRUB2 + OVMF + QEMU.

2015-08-15 Thread Jordan Uggla
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > On 14.08.2015 09:45, Mark Lee wrote: >> >> To all, >> >> I've encountered a bug when using GRUB2 + OVMF + QEMU on Arch Linux 64 >> bit. >> The issue can be reproduced when running the latest git code from grub as >> well. >> >> ISSUE: Ker

[PATCH v4 2/2] Add a module for retrieving SMBIOS information

2015-08-15 Thread David Michael
The following are two use cases from Rajat Jain : 1) We have a board that boots Linux and this board itself can be plugged into one of different chassis types. We need to pass different parameters to the kernel based on the "CHASSIS_TYPE" information that is passed by the bios in the DMI / SMBI

[PATCH v4 1/2] Add support for SMBIOS3 entry point structures

2015-08-15 Thread David Michael
If both SMBIOS v2 and v3 entry point structures are found, both are registered instead of preferring one version since they can point to different tables at different memory locations. This also modifies the fakebios command so that the entire SMBIOS (v2) EPS is copied instead of just the intermed

Re: Kernel panics (in QEMU) when booting with GRUB2 + OVMF + QEMU.

2015-08-15 Thread Mark Lee
On Saturday, August 15, 2015 09:29:55 AM Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > Once kernel is loaded, GRUB task is over. Why do you think it is GRUB issue? This seems to only occur when using GRUB + OVMF + QEMU. Transferring test.img to a disk and booting it in hardware UEFI is fine. Regards, Mark signatu