Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756453Ab3IBIUA (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Sep 2013 04:20:00 -0400 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:60334 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753890Ab3IBIT6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Sep 2013 04:19:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 09:19:53 +0100 From: Matt Fleming To: Andrew Fish Cc: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Laszlo Ersek , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov , lkml , David Woodhouse , Matthew Garrett , Brian Richardson , Colin Ian King Subject: Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region Message-ID: <20130902081953.GC28598@console-pimps.org> References: <52001896.1030509@redhat.com> <20130805220808.GC14067@pd.tnic> <20130806141036.GD14891@pd.tnic> <520116D1.2010000@redhat.com> <20130807151935.GJ17920@pd.tnic> <20130807201908.GG2515@console-pimps.org> <20130808101730.GJ2515@console-pimps.org> <1AEC7AA8-D49E-485F-A634-31B4F0D07083@apple.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1AEC7AA8-D49E-485F-A634-31B4F0D07083@apple.com> 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: 1444 Lines: 32 On Thu, 08 Aug, at 06:46:02AM, Andrew Fish wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > > > On Wed, 07 Aug, at 02:10:28PM, Andrew Fish wrote: > >> Well the issue I see is I don't think OS X or Windows are doing this. > >> So I'm guessing there is some unique thing beings done on the Linux > >> side and we don't have good tests to catch bugs in the EFI > >> implementations. If the Linux loader hides the bugs and we don't hit > >> them with other operating systems they are never going to get fixed. > >> It would be good if we could track down some of these issues and make > >> a request for some tests that can help catch these issues. The tests > >> would be part of UEFI.org, but since some of us play in both worlds we > >> can forward the known issues to the UEFI test work group. > > > > I'm all for helping to develop tests that catch these kind of bugs. > > What's the next step? > > > > I'll bring this up with UEFI.org. For those attending the UEFI plugfest in New Orleans this would be a good topic for discussion - figuring out a collaboration process to get new tests in place. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/