Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755327Ab3CFVFF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 16:05:05 -0500 Received: from smtprelay-b31.telenor.se ([213.150.131.20]:41500 "EHLO smtprelay-b31.telenor.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752551Ab3CFVFD (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 16:05:03 -0500 X-SENDER-IP: [85.230.168.206] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AttrACWvN1FV5qjOPGdsb2JhbABEjFy3WAMBgVwXAwEBAQE4NIIrAQEFOhwTAQ8QCAMUBAklDwUlChoTiBe8HhWNK0uBAQeCX2EDlkqGCI1z X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,798,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="508680461" From: "Henrik Rydberg" Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 22:07:41 +0100 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: Linux 3.9-rc1 Message-ID: <20130306210741.GA366@polaris.bitmath.org> References: <20130306080642.GA535@polaris.bitmath.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1344 Lines: 34 On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:08:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > > > > Or not. ;-) This commit breaks boot on my MacBookAir3,1: > > > > commit 8d57470d8f859635deffe3919d7d4867b488b85a > > Author: Yinghai Lu > > Date: Fri Nov 16 19:38:58 2012 -0800 > > > > x86, mm: setup page table in top-down > > Argh. The whole page table setup crud is scarily fragile. > > > Being a 64-bit apple-EFI machine, it probably runs through an obscure > > path in this patch. I wish I had more vital information, but I get the > > white screen of death, so not much to go on so far. > > I actually test on my MBA (also EFI boot), but it's a slightly newer > 4,1 version, and the memory map looks very different (I've got 251 > memory regions reported by efi, ugh). > > So Apple EFI does work at least in some cases, just not yours. Let's > hope Yinghai can figure this one out.. And so he did, thanks! FWIW, I also hit the ACPI problem. I have not seen it often enough to register anything. Cheers, Henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/