* Matt Fleming m...@console-pimps.org [140830 13:24]:
On Wed, 27 Aug, at 10:13:22AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
How about adding more info print out like:
Try to load initrd file to higher address...
Yeah, that could work, at least we've had some debugging information to
go on if people start
On Wed, 27 Aug, at 10:13:22AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
How about adding more info print out like:
Try to load initrd file to higher address...
Yeah, that could work, at least we've had some debugging information to
go on if people start reporting hangs, though I'd suggest using Trying
or
On Tue, 26 Aug, at 02:45:44PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 (x86/efi: Support initrd
loaded above 4G), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment
when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop.
There are buggy EFI implementations: with EFI run time,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Matt Fleming m...@console-pimps.org wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug, at 02:45:44PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
The reason I suggested introducing some kind of kernel parameter to
allow loading above 4G is because if Mantas loads a 5GB initrd with your
patch, his machine is still
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:49 AM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote:
On 08/26/2014 03:05 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
This does, however, suggest at least two possible solutions:
1. We can read the initramfs into a temporary buffer and memcpy() it to
the target.
2. We might be able to align the
Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 (x86/efi: Support initrd
loaded above 4G), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment
when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop.
There are buggy EFI implementations: with EFI run time, kernel need
to load file with 512bytes alignment when
On 08/26/2014 02:45 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 (x86/efi: Support initrd
loaded above 4G), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment
when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop.
There are buggy EFI implementations: with EFI run time, kernel need
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:53 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote:
On 08/26/2014 02:45 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 (x86/efi: Support initrd
loaded above 4G), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment
when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Yinghai Lu ying...@kernel.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:53 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote:
On 08/26/2014 02:45 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 (x86/efi: Support initrd
loaded above 4G), the kernel freezes at the
