On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 01:26:05PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > Hi, > > I did write an email to x86@xxxxxxxxxx, which sadly seems to have no > mailing list archive, I wonder if my problem has anything to do with the > patches you are discussing here: > > I found this reply, which contains my original email in my inbox: > > Subject: Kernel v5.5 doesn't boot on my x86 laptop > > Hi, > > I'm using an old MacBookPro1,1 to run Fedora 30 (the last one to support > x86) and a upstream up-to-date kernel, currently 5.4.16. > > I'm using sd-boot to boot into an EFI-enabled kernel which contains > an embedded initram cpio image (because loading the image from kernel's > EFI stub doesn't seem to work for some unknown reason, I tried to debug > this but my early debugging foo is too weak). > > Kernel 5.4.x works correctly with this setup (but resuming from disk > seems to have broken in 5.4.x or maybe even earlier - when resuming from > disk I get all kind of funky OOPSes/errors, but that's another story, hopefully > 5.5.x was fixed in this regards). > > So I did have a look at the commits under arch/x86/boot and "x86/boot: > Introduce setup_indirect" (b3c72fc9a78e74161f9d05ef7191706060628f8c) did > talk about "bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S", so I > did revert above commit and I was finally able to boot into v5.5 kernel! > > So either sd-boot also needs an upgrade or this commit does break > something. > Any help is welcome, don't hesitate to get in contact with me if you > have any questions. > > mfg > thomas > If it is a problem with 5.5, it would be unrelated to this thread, which is about problems introduced by patches for the upcoming 5.7. Thanks.
