Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot

2014-08-20 Thread Matt Fleming
[ Pulling in EDK2 folks for help ] On Wed, 20 Aug, at 08:53:45PM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 20/08/14 20:05, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > > >I experimented with some things (like setting chunk size to a few kB > >to see if it hangs earlier or only at the very end; etc.), and finally > >found out tha

Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot

2014-08-20 Thread Michael Brown
On 20/08/14 20:05, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug, at 07:44:49PM, Matt Fleming wrote: At this point, I think modifying the max address is the best way to debug this further, and figure out what address causes the hang. Mantas, did

Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot

2014-08-20 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug, at 07:44:49PM, Matt Fleming wrote: >> >> At this point, I think modifying the max address is the best way to >> debug this further, and figure out what address causes the hang. > > Mantas, did you manage to get to the bottom of

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64/efi: efistub: don't abort if base of DRAM is occupied

2014-08-20 Thread Mark Rutland
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:10:57PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug, at 12:32:05PM, Mark Rutland wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > If we cannot relocate the kernel Image to its preferred offset of base of > > > DRAM > > > plus TEXT_OFFSET,

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64/efi: efistub: don't abort if base of DRAM is occupied

2014-08-20 Thread Matt Fleming
On Thu, 14 Aug, at 12:32:05PM, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > If we cannot relocate the kernel Image to its preferred offset of base of > > DRAM > > plus TEXT_OFFSET, instead relocate it to the lowest available 2 MB boundary > > plus > >

Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot

2014-08-20 Thread Matt Fleming
On Wed, 13 Aug, at 07:44:49PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > > At this point, I think modifying the max address is the best way to > debug this further, and figure out what address causes the hang. Mantas, did you manage to get to the bottom of this issue? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology