On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Peter Jones wrote:
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.
Right.
> 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!
Oh, that's good news, thank you! I'll write a better description
and send it off to Linus and Ingo for 2.6.26 now. I'll say "Fedora
reports..." and say "Tested-by: Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com>",
would that be appropriate?
Hugh