Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:35:41 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>, tglx@linutronix.de,
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        matt.fleming@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Configure NX support earlier in setup_arch
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:28:43AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Oh, it is a case of Grub2 utter braindamage. That figures. I guess we
> need to invoke verify_cpu in yet another place.

How so? The bug report speaks of disabling NX in the BIOS, I'm assuming
they're setting bit 34 in IA32_MISC_ENABLE.

How would that affect grub2?

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