Patch to arch/x86/mm/init_32.c causes EFI-32 machines to reboot early in startup
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Wed Jul 2 20:36:02 UTC 2008
Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Does a CONFIG_SMP=n kernel boot okay with EFI? I'd expect it to
> suffer from the same problem, and it just hasn't been tried because
> you've got 2 or more cores on those machines? But confirmation or
> denial would be interesting.
Well, it hasn't been tried with CONFIG_SMP=n simply because in Fedora we
haven't been building uniprocessor kernels since SMP alternatives came
about.
> I've got my fingers crossed: please let us know, thanks.
>
> Hugh
>
> --- 2.6.26-rc8/arch/x86/kernel/efi_32.c 2008-04-17 03:49:44.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/efi_32.c 2008-07-02 17:02:36.000000000 +0100
[...]
The inline patch works, thanks!
--
Peter
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