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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:28:50 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [Regression] "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall
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On 08/05/2012 02:29 PM, Jérôme Carretero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My PC (AMD Bulldozer + Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX) booted fine from UEFI
> and it broke between v3.5 and v3.6-rc1.
> Other machines with old BIOSes booted fine so I looked into EFI-related
> patches trying to revert them, because I didn't know what else to do.
>
> Bingo, bacef661: x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock.
>
> At the moment I reverted this commit after v3.6-rc1-133-g42a579a,
> and it boots fine.
>
> This really not my domain so tell me if I can help testing.
>

Thank you... we were aware of the problem but had not been able to 
reproduce it, so we had hoped someone would bisect or otherwise identify 
the faulty patch.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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