Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

From: Russ Anderson
Date: Fri Jan 31 2014 - 08:54:07 EST


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:04:28AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> > Re-adding lkml.
>
> Also add linux-efi.
>
> > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because
> > it does not work in physical mode. If you ever see "virtefi"
> > on the RHEL bootline it is because RH switched the default
> > to physical mode, which caused UV to not boot. "virtefi"
> > forced it back to virtual mode.
>
> Do you have details of the failure, links to bug reports? Is it a
> limitation of the firmware?

That was a non-upstream regression in the distro kernel. The
3.13 community kernel was boots fine. The current problem is a
regression introduced in this merge window which needs to be fixed.


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Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx
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