On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Erdem Aktas wrote: > I am using a custom, optimized and stripped down version, OVMF build. > Do you think it is because of the OVMF or grub? Not sure, I havn't looked into how grub decides which entry point to use. > In my case, there are 2 places where the CPUID is called: the first > one is to decide if long mode is supported, along with few other > features like SSE support and the second one is to retrieve the > encryption bit location. Yes, it is basically the verify_cpu() function that is causing the trouble. If you want to work around it you can comment it out in that path for testing purposes. Regards, Joerg