Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Jun 08 2011 - 16:04:26 EST


On 06/08/2011 12:52 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On 06/08/2011 12:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>> On 06/08/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>>>>> what former? you can not fix some corner case by breaking most other cases.
>>>>>
>>>>> All Dell laptops, all new Apples, some Lenovos, various Intel server
>>>>> platforms. That I've found so far.
>>>>
>>>> do you mean before that patch, all those machine will not boot linux kernel with UEFI support?
>>>
>>> Correct.
>>
>> with or without EFI runtime services?
>
> They'll boot with noefi, but that's useless because there's then no way
> to configure a bootloader.

efibootmgr will need boot services in addition to run-time services?

if really need some info from boot services, could let bootloader to get them and pass them to kernel.

Yinghai
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