Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 15.08.11 at 20:18, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 14:12 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Bottom line - the fix here is needed for 32-bit booting only (and
>> hence isn't - afaic - as critical as I first thought). But the adjustment
>> I'm holding is a necessary one (and I don't even understand why,
>> when 32- and 64-bit EFI code got merged, this was left 32-bit only),
>> and the NX consolidation change needs to be fixed too (basically as
>> a prerequisite).
> 
> But the rtc-lock patch is independent and can be merged on its own,
> right? Sure the other issues need fixing but there's no sense in holding
> up the rtc-lock patch, since with it applied my machine actually boots.

Oh, yes, absolutely - I'm actually waiting for this one to get applied so
that the enabling of the use of the EFI RTC routines on x86-64 won't
cause the same problem there.

Jan

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