Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2013 17:05:34 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code |
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:02:15PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > > Russ, > > > > Can we open a bug for the BIOS folks and see if we can get this addressed? > > I already talked with them. It is not in an area that we > normally change, so if there is a bug may be in the Intel > reference code. More investigation is needed to track down > the actual problem, and that could take help from Intel. > > Regardless of that, it is a kernel patch that triggers the > problem. This isn't the first time a kernel change does > the "right thing" but trips across questionable bios/EFI/bootloader > implementation. That still makes it a kernel bug. > > I'm still digging to better understand the root problem.
When we rebased the Fedora 18 kernel to 3.9 we had a bunch of reports from people who can no longer boot with what looks like similar symptoms.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964335
Dave
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