Re: [Regression] "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wallclock" prevents my machine from booting

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/05/2012 02:29 PM, JÃrÃme Carretero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My PC (AMD Bulldozer + Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX) booted fine from UEFI
> and it broke between v3.5 and v3.6-rc1.
> Other machines with old BIOSes booted fine so I looked into EFI-related
> patches trying to revert them, because I didn't know what else to do.
>
> Bingo, bacef661: x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock.
>
> At the moment I reverted this commit after v3.6-rc1-133-g42a579a,
> and it boots fine.
>
> This really not my domain so tell me if I can help testing.

Thank you... we were aware of the problem but had not been able to 
reproduce it, so we had hoped someone would bisect or otherwise identify 
the faulty patch.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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