Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-18 Thread Alex Thorlton
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:23:16AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:00:47AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > We should at least check the BIOS version via a DMI quirk and panic in some > > nicely > > informative 'upgrade your BIOS!' way to ease the transition ... > > Or si

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:00:47AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > We should at least check the BIOS version via a DMI quirk and panic in some > nicely > informative 'upgrade your BIOS!' way to ease the transition ... Or since we're touching BIOS anyway, maybe stick a bit somewhere which says "EFI i

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alex Thorlton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 08:32:59PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > > Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to > > > efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-17 Thread Alex Thorlton
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 08:32:59PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to > > efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old > > EFI memmap mechani

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-17 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to > efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old > EFI memmap mechanism. We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so we no > longer need this q

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-17 Thread Alex Thorlton
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:52:08AM +, Matt Fleming wrote: > Awesome! Thanks Alex. > > Can I also close https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75021 ? Yep! Thanks, Matt! - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-17 Thread Matt Fleming
On Mon, 16 Nov, at 07:02:48PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > CC'ing Matt under his correct e-mail address. > > > Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to > > efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Alex Thorlton wrote: CC'ing Matt under his correct e-mail address. > Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to > efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old > EFI memmap mechanism. We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so

[PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

2015-11-16 Thread Alex Thorlton
Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old EFI memmap mechanism. We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so we no longer need this quirk in the kernel. This commit removes the quirk from the function in