Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot

[Thomas Meyer]

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> 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.
I'm using elilo-3.6-ia32.efi provided at the elilo homepage.  i wasn't 
able to create a working efi toolchain :-(
Does elilo-3.6 already do the converting of the memory map, or not?
> 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.
What do you want so say? Does linux support EFI or not?
>     -hpa

mfg
thomas
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