Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Matt Fleming
On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: Re-adding lkml. Also add linux-efi. 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,

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:04:28AM +, Matt Fleming wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: Re-adding lkml. Also add linux-efi. 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

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:07:22AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: 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

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:02:21AM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: I'm not sure what you are asking for. We had a reliable way to boot before the recent patch broke it. (commit d2f7cbe7b26a74dbbbf8f325b2a6fd01bc34032c) So we should stop any further development just because your machines did boot

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:23:18PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: So we should stop any further development just because your machines did boot nicely before that. What about the other machines and kexec we're fixing with the work above? Jeez... Alternatively, we can force the old memmap method