Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:17:52PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> we need to revert patch from mjg.
> 
> From 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:53:13 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to
>  virtual mode

That's not a long-term option, since we have no way to distinguish 
between a machine that requires boot services code to be mapped and a 
machine that doesn't. Reverting just breaks the former set again. We 
need to ensure that the kernel isn't overlapping boot services code.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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