Re: [PATCH 0/5] EFI memmap and other fixes, v3

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jan 23 2014 - 11:51:17 EST


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:30:19AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> Since this issue is quite serious on our systems (3.14 kernels won't
> boot up), I'd really appreciate if the fixes can be made into some
> 3.14-rc. It can hit on any EFI systems with large memory.

That's why we have "efi=old_map" - so that you can use the old mapping
method which is a chicken bit for the new scheme.

And I told you privately already that you're better off merging Matt's
'next' branch than us exposing this to the world too early. So stop
pushing this when there are clearly other solutions for your case and be
patient!

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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