On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:52:34PM +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in the recent set of EFI patches that have been merged in > 3.0.0-rc1, as my Latitude E5520 will not boot from EFI with 2.6.39 unless I > pass "noefi" to the kernel. (ArchLinux bug, detailing which patches I'm > talking about: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24463) > > I've tested 3.0.0-rc1, and my laptop does indeed now boot from EFI, although > the kernel complains about bugs. The full dmesg.txt file can be found at > https://gist.github.com/1000394, and I've filed a bug report for this > (#36362). > > It would appear that these patches enable otherwise broken hardware to boot. > Any chance these could be merged to stable? Please let me know if I can be > of > any further help.
Please test the 2.6.39.1 kernel when it comes out in a few days as it has one of the UEFI patches in it. If that doesn't work, please work with the developer of those patches to see if others should be added to the .39-stable kernel as well and let us know which ones. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
