Re: [PATCH] x86: only load initrd above 4g on second try

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On 08/26/2014 02:45 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 ("x86/efi: Support initrd
> loaded above 4G"), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment
> when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop.
> 
> There are buggy EFI implementations: with EFI run time, kernel need
> to load file with 512bytes alignment when buffer is above 4G.
> 

This makes absolutely zero sense.  Please explain what the actual
problem is here.

	-hpa

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