On Tue, 02 Sep, at 05:25:58PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> My macbook pro 8.2 fails to do a efi stub boot with these patches.
> 
> Commit f23cf8bd5c1f49 "efi/x86: efistub: Move shared dependencies to 
> <asm/efi.h>"
> causes the first break, but this can be averted by changing
> 
> struct efi_config *efi_early;
> 
> to
> 
> struct efi_config *efi_early __attribute__((visibility("hidden")));
 
Weird. That sounds like a bug in the Apple EFI PE loader. Does any other
visibility result in a working kernel?

> I also need to revert commit f4f75ad5741fe "efi: efistub: Convert into static 
> library"
> to get boot working.
 
I'll take a look at the symbol changes between these commits and try and
guess what's going on.

> I'm not an early boot expert, so I have no idea what's going on here.
> Only console output I see when the boot fails is "setup_efi_pci() failed!" 
> after
> the commit that adds this message.

Yeah, that should be unrelated.

Thanks for the report.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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