On Wed, 03 Sep, at 09:50:07PM, 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.
>
> Revert to old way to load initrd under 4G on first try,
> second try will use above 4G buffer when initrd is too big
> and does not fit under 4G.
>
> -v2: add print out for second try, and print out files buf address.
> -v3: can not snprintf
> -v4: drop address print out for files buf
>
> Reported-by: Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Anders Darander <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Thanks, I've picked this up and expanded on the commit message because a
lot of useful information was discussed on the mailing list that we
should definitely include.
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git/commit/?h=urgent&id=b524e05df6d466af2f7eea1f044369109e48e641
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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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