On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun, at 03:28:19PM, Matt Fleming wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Jun, at 12:23:41PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> > For boot efi kernel directly without bootloader. >> > If the kernel support XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G, we should >> > not limit initrd under hdr->initrd_add_max. > > Well, fooey. This patch breaks one of my ASUS machines. It appears some > firmware implementations exhibit issues reading directly into a buffer > above the 4GB mark. > > I haven't diagnosed exactly what goes wrong with the buffer (i.e. in > what way it becomes corrupt), but I should really do that before > thinking of how to fix this. > > I'll keep you posted, I just wanted to give you a heads up that things > are screwy in this area. Oh, no. so efi could allocate buffer above 4g but can not access it? Yinghai -- 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
