On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 16:35, Jarkko Nikula
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> v5.7-rc1 hangs in early boot on an Intel Atom based prototype hardware
> while v5.6 boots fine. I bisected the regression into 0a67361dcdaa
> ("efi/x86: Remove runtime table address from kexec EFI setup data").
>
> v5.7-rc1 caused a reboot loop on another Intel Core based prototype HW.
> Reboots also on top of 0a67361dcdaa but boots fine with that commit
> reverted.
>
> Our test system uses kexec to boot the test kernel. These two machines
> got regression with v5.7-rc1. We have also others that boot fine.
>
This should already be fixed in Linus's tree. Please report back
whether that solves your problem or not.
On 4/16/20 5:36 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 16:35, Jarkko Nikula
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> v5.7-rc1 hangs in early boot on an Intel Atom based prototype hardware
>> while v5.6 boots fine. I bisected the regression into 0a67361dcdaa
>> ("efi/x86: Remove runtime table address from kexec EFI setup data").
>>
>> v5.7-rc1 caused a reboot loop on another Intel Core based prototype HW.
>> Reboots also on top of 0a67361dcdaa but boots fine with that commit
>> reverted.
>>
>> Our test system uses kexec to boot the test kernel. These two machines
>> got regression with v5.7-rc1. We have also others that boot fine.
>>
>
> This should already be fixed in Linus's tree. Please report back
> whether that solves your problem or not.
>
Ah, I forgot to pull & test before bisecting...
Yes, both machines boot fine with the HEAD 00086336a8d9 ("Merge tag
'efi-urgent-2020-04-15' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip").
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Jarkko