On 08/20/14 22:30, Matt Fleming wrote: > [ Pulling in EDK2 folks for help ] > > On Wed, 20 Aug, at 08:53:45PM, Michael Brown wrote: >> On 20/08/14 20:05, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: >>> >>> I experimented with some things (like setting chunk size to a few kB >>> to see if it hangs earlier or only at the very end; etc.), and finally >>> found out that it stops freezing if I pad the initrd file to a >>> multiple of 512 bytes :/ That is, 5684268 bytes will freeze, 5684736 >>> bytes will not. >>> >>> ...In other words, seems like it cannot read chunks that aren't >>> multiples of 512 into a location above 4 GB. Or something like that... This patch by yours truly appears remotely relevant: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/4e39b75e It's dated Aug 26, 2013; no idea if the firmware on Mantas' Asus K52JT, AMI firmware v206, has it. Thanks, Laszlo -- 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
