Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 07 Aug, at 02:10:28PM, Andrew Fish wrote: >> Well the issue I see is I don't think OS X or Windows are doing this. >> So I'm guessing there is some unique thing beings done on the Linux >> side and we don't have goo

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Matt Fleming m...@console-pimps.org wrote: On Wed, 07 Aug, at 02:10:28PM, Andrew Fish wrote: Well the issue I see is I don't think OS X or Windows are doing this. So I'm guessing there is some unique thing beings done on the Linux side and we don't have good tests

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > [ Readding Matthew Garrett to the Cc list, seeing as we both got removed > for some unknown reason ] > > On Wed, 07 Aug, at 10:23:56AM, Andrew Fish wrote: > >> OK so I think I need some Cliff Notes here to help me unders

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew Fish
output is right at the end: > > ConvertRange: 7DC59000-7DC5AFFF to 4 > AddRange: 7DC59000-7DC5AFFF to 4 > AllocatePoolI: Type 4, Addr 7DC59018 (len 16F0) 26,735,072 This is the internal DXE Core call. It looks like a boot services memory allocation is being made. The converts usu

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew Fish
. It looks like a boot services memory allocation is being made. The converts usually are converting from free memory, EfiConventionalMemory, to the type requested. Thanks, Andrew Fish Jumping to kernel We get that same output no matter if I boot it with -enable-kvm or not. If the order

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Matt Fleming m...@console-pimps.org wrote: [ Readding Matthew Garrett to the Cc list, seeing as we both got removed for some unknown reason ] On Wed, 07 Aug, at 10:23:56AM, Andrew Fish wrote: OK so I think I need some Cliff Notes here to help me understand

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-05 Thread Andrew Fish
Even if the platform firmware is easy to update you want to have complexity in the OS as it is easier to change and easier to get right. Thanks, Andrew Fish >>> I wouldn't wonder if we f*cked it up again like the last time. I'll give >>> it a long hard look. >> >>

Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

2013-08-05 Thread Andrew Fish
to update you want to have complexity in the OS as it is easier to change and easier to get right. Thanks, Andrew Fish I wouldn't wonder if we f*cked it up again like the last time. I'll give it a long hard look. Ah sorry, by and you guys suspect I didn't mean to imply anything between