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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Anders Darander" <anders@chargestorm.se>,
	"Matt Fleming" <matt@console-pimps.org>,
	"Mantas Mikulėnas" <grawity@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Matt Fleming" <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4] x86: only load initrd above 4g on second try
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:20:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540A0CF9.6060606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQV7XLwKsYWprmKAkZGGyuFeK=o_b1_ABMbEGVZzZxtp2w@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/05/14 19:03, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 09/05/14 07:47, Anders Darander wrote:
>> In other words, the rounding up of the kernel will be undone in a
>> "somewhat higher level" driver in the firmware, and the request size
>> that reaches DiskIo (the "lowel level driver") remains the same.
> 
> Thanks for explanation.
> 
> Is there any way to check if EFI firmware have your fix from some calling?

I can't think of any, alas.

It might make sense to contact Mantas's and Anders's UEFI vendors; after
all a reliable reproducer is available.

Thanks,
Laszlo


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04  4:50 Yinghai Lu
2014-09-04 10:01 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-04 20:59   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 21:29     ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-05  1:19       ` Yinghai Lu
2014-09-05  5:47         ` Anders Darander
2014-09-05  6:38           ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-09-05 17:03             ` Yinghai Lu
2014-09-05 19:20               ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2014-09-05 22:16     ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-06 19:05       ` Anders Darander
2014-09-06 20:09       ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2014-09-06 20:10         ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2014-09-08 15:58         ` Matt Fleming

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