Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:53:20 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: only load initrd above 4g on second try |
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On 08/26/2014 02:45 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 ("x86/efi: Support initrd > loaded above 4G"), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment > when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop. > > There are buggy EFI implementations: with EFI run time, kernel need > to load file with 512bytes alignment when buffer is above 4G. >
This makes absolutely zero sense. Please explain what the actual problem is here.
-hpa
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