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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:52:50 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 12:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> On 06/08/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >>>> what former? you can not fix some corner case by breaking most other cases.
> >>>
> >>> All Dell laptops, all new Apples, some Lenovos, various Intel server 
> >>> platforms. That I've found so far.
> >>
> >> do you mean before that patch, all those machine will not boot linux kernel with UEFI support?
> > 
> > Correct.
> 
> with or without EFI runtime services?

They'll boot with noefi, but that's useless because there's then no way 
to configure a bootloader.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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