Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock

[Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 07:22 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 15.08.11 at 20:18, Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 14:12 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> Bottom line - the fix here is needed for 32-bit booting only (and
> >> hence isn't - afaic - as critical as I first thought). But the adjustment
> >> I'm holding is a necessary one (and I don't even understand why,
> >> when 32- and 64-bit EFI code got merged, this was left 32-bit only),
> >> and the NX consolidation change needs to be fixed too (basically as
> >> a prerequisite).
> > 
> > But the rtc-lock patch is independent and can be merged on its own,
> > right? Sure the other issues need fixing but there's no sense in holding
> > up the rtc-lock patch, since with it applied my machine actually boots.
> 
> Oh, yes, absolutely - I'm actually waiting for this one to get applied so
> that the enabling of the use of the EFI RTC routines on x86-64 won't
> cause the same problem there.

OK cool, thanks Jan. I suspect Ingo will pick this up, or Thomas once
he's worked through his email backlog ;-)

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center