Re: [REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] efi: Use generic EFI loader for x86_64 and i386

2024-07-22 Thread Jan Čermák
Hi Ard, everyone, On 03. 07. 24 19:35, Jan Čermák wrote: Sure, below is output from the board I have available. I'll ask the community members who reported the issues to get me output from their systems. in the attachments I'm sending all complete dmidecode outputs I was able to

Re: [REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] efi: Use generic EFI loader for x86_64 and i386

2024-07-03 Thread Jan Čermák
On 03. 07. 24 16:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: If GRUB no longer works correctly on these systems due to the move to the generic EFI loader, and we can straight-forwardly identify them using SMBIOS metadata, I don't anticipate any objections from the GRUB maintainers. Cool, that sounds great! I

Re: [REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] efi: Use generic EFI loader for x86_64 and i386

2024-07-03 Thread Jan Čermák
Hi Ard On 28. 06. 24 19:28, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: Given that you carry your own GRUB build, I would recommend reverting to non-EFI stub boot for affected Atom systems, identified by DMI data, which should be easy to access on such systems. Look for 'goto fallback' in the existing loader logic i

Re: [REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] efi: Use generic EFI loader for x86_64 and i386

2024-06-27 Thread Jan Čermák
Hi Ard, sorry, I feel a little ashamed for replying after such a long time but I wanted to do some due diligence first and didn't have time (or the Atom board around) until now. Does your Kconfig have EFI_DISABLE_PCI_DMA enabled by any chance? That could definitely produce the issues you are

[REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] efi: Use generic EFI loader for x86_64 and i386

2024-05-16 Thread Jan Čermák
Hi Ard, everyone, On 23. 05. 23 17:31, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Switch the x86 based EFI platform builds to the generic EFI loader, > ... We use GRUB as the loader for the Home Assistant Operating System (based on Buildroot, using mostly unpatched GRUB 2 build [1]) and after updating to the lat