Re: [PATCH] Remove unconditional disablement of the watchdog

2015-09-09 Thread Arthur Mesh
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:42:08AM -0700, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > This patch will break any current config on systems with watchdog. That's true. > You need to ensure that: > a) watchdog timeout is plenty to load config file even on very slow > netboot systems. Is there

Re: [PATCH] Remove unconditional disablement of the watchdog

2015-09-08 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.09.2015 07:51, Arthur Mesh wrote: > Starting with d9a0c9413e81d3c0affc6383693bdd28dc863a5c, GRUB unconditionally > disables watchdog on EFI platforms. This opens up a window (starting at GRUB's > grub_efi_init(), until OS re-enables it) when EFI system operates w/o > watchdog. > If an EFI sy

[PATCH] Remove unconditional disablement of the watchdog

2015-09-01 Thread Arthur Mesh
Starting with d9a0c9413e81d3c0affc6383693bdd28dc863a5c, GRUB unconditionally disables watchdog on EFI platforms. This opens up a window (starting at GRUB's grub_efi_init(), until OS re-enables it) when EFI system operates w/o watchdog. If an EFI system gets stuck in that window, the chipset will ne