On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:14:32PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > From: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>
> > 
> > commit 5189c2a7c7769ee9d037d76c1a7b8550ccf3481c upstream.
> > 
> > When 32-bit EFI is used with 64-bit kernel (or vice versa), turn off
> > efi_enabled once setup is done. Beyond setup, it is normally used to
> > determine if runtime services are available and we will have none.
> > 
> > This will resolve issues stemming from efivars modprobe panicking on a
> > 32/64-bit setup, as well as some reboot issues on similar setups.
> > 
> > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45991
> > 
> > Reported-by: Marko Kohtala <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Maxim Kammerer <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected] # 3.x: 7851079 efi: Defer freeing boot services
> > Cc: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > 
> > Stable folks, I wasn't sure of the best way to highlight the
> > dependency this patch has on commit 7851079 ("efi: Defer freeing boot
> > services memory until after ACPI init"), so I added it to the stable
> > tag above. If you'd like it done some other way just shout.
> 
> Nope, that worked just fine, thanks, both are now queued up.

Cheers Greg. These patches also need to go to 3.5 too, I think. Olof?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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