Re: 3.12 to 3.13 boot regression bisected - still applies to 3.16

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Tue Aug 05 2014 - 05:18:58 EST


On Tue, 05 Aug, at 11:13:30AM, Bruno Prémont wrote:
>
> I get at least to just before
> status = efi_call_early(exit_boot_services, handle, key);
> in eboot.c on line 1310. A efi_printk inserted there is displayed.

This is worth pointing out in case you're unaware, but do you know that
it's not valid to call efi_printk() after ExitBootServices()? Doing so
will almost certainly cause your machine to fault.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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