Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

Thomas Meyer wrote:
> I can not revert the commit e429795c68d3001ecae74f6465420c9f043b0ece. it 
> gave me errors.
> but i'm also not sure what could be wrong with this commit!
>
> my first idea was that the commit 
> "[2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e] x86 boot: use E820 memory 
> map on EFI 32 platform" is the offender, because the macbook pro doesn't 
> provide a e820 memory map at all. but bisect showed that i'm wrong here?!

ELILO is expected to convert the memory map from EFI to e820 format.

EFI32 is likely to be poorly supported, since Apple is likely to be the 
only platform to *ever* ship EFI32 in mass production, and it has a BIOS 
emulation layer available.

	-hpa
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