Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:32:43 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP |
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* Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
> On 15/01/18 15:56, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:52:25PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Ingo, with my finding that above boot failure is related to a bug in > >> openSUSE's grub2 (I've verified it soesn't exist in upstream grub2), > > > > The box I'm seeing this on has SLES12-SP2 grub: > > > > Version : 2.02~beta2-115.9.1 > > > > Does it have the same bug? > > The patch introducing this problem is from 2012. So I guess: yes.
I suspect this makes it a widespread, unintended ABI. Can we detect and somehow avoid it?
The boot protocol ABI sucks if it's fragile against such mistakes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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