Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock | From | Matt Fleming <> | Date | Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:14:28 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 07:22 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 15.08.11 at 20:18, Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 14:12 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> Bottom line - the fix here is needed for 32-bit booting only (and > >> hence isn't - afaic - as critical as I first thought). But the adjustment > >> I'm holding is a necessary one (and I don't even understand why, > >> when 32- and 64-bit EFI code got merged, this was left 32-bit only), > >> and the NX consolidation change needs to be fixed too (basically as > >> a prerequisite). > > > > But the rtc-lock patch is independent and can be merged on its own, > > right? Sure the other issues need fixing but there's no sense in holding > > up the rtc-lock patch, since with it applied my machine actually boots. > > Oh, yes, absolutely - I'm actually waiting for this one to get applied so > that the enabling of the use of the EFI RTC routines on x86-64 won't > cause the same problem there.
OK cool, thanks Jan. I suspect Ingo will pick this up, or Thomas once he's worked through his email backlog ;-)
-- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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