Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932450AbaAaNyA (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:54:00 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:43768 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932383AbaAaNx7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:53:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:53:55 -0600 From: Russ Anderson To: Matt Fleming Cc: Alex Thorlton , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes Message-ID: <20140131135355.GB22498@sgi.com> Reply-To: Russ Anderson References: <20140124184842.GD11788@pd.tnic> <20140124191709.GT18196@sgi.com> <20140127222129.GK6839@pd.tnic> <20140128110552.GA815@pd.tnic> <20140128200754.GZ18196@sgi.com> <20140128225905.GN815@pd.tnic> <20140128234036.GB18196@sgi.com> <20140129141822.GC24887@pd.tnic> <20140130221950.GJ3105@sgi.com> <20140131080428.GA29136@console-pimps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140131080428.GA29136@console-pimps.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com -- 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/