Re: 3.9.7, 3.10-rc7 - UEFI stalls at boot (nothing displayed),when booting with mem=300M

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 13:43:14 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:39:14PM -0500, Matthew Thode wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 12:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:47:42AM -0500, Matthew Thode wrote:
> >> There is an early boot failure with linux-3.[9,10].??? when booting
> >> using uefi on low memory systems.
> >
> > Does it happen on systems that genuinely have small amounts of memory,
> > or only on systems where you're passing mem=?
> >
> I don't have a system (or even memory to place in this one) that has
> that small amount of memory. Do they even make ddr3 sodimms that small?

I've no idea. If a bug can't be triggered on any hardware that actually
exists, it doesn't seem like a high priority.

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