On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:28:16AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > Well, we did find the bug in a combined debug session and SGI will be > > > issuing a fix soon. I don't know whether any quirk will be needed for > > > systems which don't have the fix - I guess that's something for SGI > > > people to decide. CCed and leaving in the rest for reference. > > > > > > @Alex, Russ: this is about using kexec on UEFI boxes. > > > > Thanks for the heads up. Our bios made an assumption about > > mapping that was valid with the old mapping scheme but not > > with the new. Fortunately the fix will work with both old > > and new kernels, so the fix can be added in the next bios > > update. But we still have to be careful when removing the > > quirk, to avoid someone trying a new kernel with old bios > > and not being able to boot. > > The quirk will quirk out all uv system, will SGI people provide a patch > to only add quirk for old firmware version or just removing the quirk > after the update is out? Yes - I'm working on that now. I'll make sure you're copied on the patch when I do get it all worked out. > Thanks > Dave
