[PATCH] x86: do not enable efi boot for sgi uv machine
Vivek Goyal
vgoyal at redhat.com
Tue May 27 06:23:48 PDT 2014
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:19:30AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
[..]
>
> > Well, we did find the bug in a combined debug session and SGI will be
> > issuing a fix soon. I don't know whether any quirk will be needed for
> > systems which don't have the fix - I guess that's something for SGI
> > people to decide. CCed and leaving in the rest for reference.
> >
> > @Alex, Russ: this is about using kexec on UEFI boxes.
>
> Thanks for the heads up. Our bios made an assumption about
> mapping that was valid with the old mapping scheme but not
> with the new. Fortunately the fix will work with both old
> and new kernels, so the fix can be added in the next bios
> update. But we still have to be careful when removing the
> quirk, to avoid someone trying a new kernel with old bios
> and not being able to boot.
Hi,
So is there is a way for kernel to know whether BIOS has fix or not?
IOW, I am wondering how would one remove quirk or how one can be
reasonably sure that kernel is not booting with Old BIOS.
Thanks
Vivek
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