On Oct 14, 2014 02:14, Benjamin Block wrote: > I finally got it to work, well at least to get into the MLE, still > have to get back to Linux, but this will be the smaller part of the work. > > Over the last days I had some really weired problems with the > starting- process though. The CPU work execute the ACM-Sinit, but it > would fail with the error-code "0xC0000481" - that means "interrupt > occurred". I could fix this by starting linux with "intremap=off", > this turns interrupt-remapping and this in turn x2apic off. After that > my MLE would launch. > > The thing is, I never read about this in the spec. The spec tells me > only that DMA remapping should off - which it was/is - neither irq- > remap, nor x2apic are mentioned. Additionally the SDM on SMX says that > before going to the ACM - I learned ;) - it turns off all interrupt- > sources (external and internal). Is this some new requirement that is > not yet in the spec or should this not happen, even with irq-rmapping > and x2apic? Maybe I'm also fixing around a completely different issue > by turning those off.
This is a known bug in HSW SINIT. Please try to use the coming BDW SINIT on your HSW system, which fixed this bug. Thanks Jimmy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ tboot-devel mailing list tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tboot-devel
