On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:08:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Henrik Rydberg <rydb...@euromail.se> wrote: > > > > Or not. ;-) This commit breaks boot on my MacBookAir3,1: > > > > commit 8d57470d8f859635deffe3919d7d4867b488b85a > > Author: Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org> > > Date: Fri Nov 16 19:38:58 2012 -0800 > > > > x86, mm: setup page table in top-down > > Argh. The whole page table setup crud is scarily fragile. > > > Being a 64-bit apple-EFI machine, it probably runs through an obscure > > path in this patch. I wish I had more vital information, but I get the > > white screen of death, so not much to go on so far. > > I actually test on my MBA (also EFI boot), but it's a slightly newer > 4,1 version, and the memory map looks very different (I've got 251 > memory regions reported by efi, ugh). > > So Apple EFI does work at least in some cases, just not yours. Let's > hope Yinghai can figure this one out..
And so he did, thanks! FWIW, I also hit the ACPI problem. I have not seen it often enough to register anything. Cheers, Henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
