On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 07:12:51PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 18:43 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The kernel does, the EFI boot stub doesn't. There's probably an argument > > for having it fail in that case, but it wouldn't even be able to print > > an error message without some gymnastics. > > Printing an error message is simple enough from assembler; you just need > to call sys_table->con_out->output_string. I don't think that's guaranteed to do something unless we've set a console mode first, but sure, that ought to be an improvement. > "Sorry, this kernel cannot boot in " (32|64) "-bit mode this way. Your > bootloader should have ignored the shiny new EFI handover protocol and > booted it the old way. It would have worked then, albeit without EFI > runtime services. Which you probably wouldn't have missed." "(32|64) bit kernels cannot be booted via the EFI handover protocol on (64|32) bit firmware"? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
