Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Jun 03 2011 - 10:46:55 EST


On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Jim Bos wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 03:33 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > ? You've got 143 boot services/code regions, which is more than I'd
> > tested against, so I'm unsure whether we're overflowing something here.
> >
>
> That's seems to be the only EFI patch in 2.6.39.1 and I effectively
> removed by =not= applying (skipping) the parts of the 2.6.39.1 patch to
> above 3 files.
> So yes removing "x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after
> switching to virtual mode" indeed fixes the problem for me.

Ok, thanks. I'll look into that. Might be best to drop it from stable
for the moment until I've made sure it works on machines with excessive
maps.

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