1. 31 1月, 2013 2 次提交
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      samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware · e0094244
      Matt Fleming 提交于
      It has been reported that running this driver on some Samsung laptops
      with EFI can cause those machines to become bricked as detailed in the
      following report,
      
      	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
      
      There have also been reports of this driver causing Machine Check
      Exceptions on recent EFI-enabled Samsung laptops,
      
      	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
      
      So disable it if booting from EFI since this driver relies on
      grovelling around in the BIOS memory map which isn't going to work.
      
      Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
      Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      e0094244
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      efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities · 83e68189
      Matt Fleming 提交于
      Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
      EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
      indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
      bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.
      
      The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,
      
          https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
      
      which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
      designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
      bricked. Also, the following report,
      
          https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
      
      details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
      Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
      running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,
      
          if (!efi_enabled)
      
      hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.
      
      Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
      what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
      facilities.
      
      For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
      the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
      the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
      mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
      driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
      would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).
      
      This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.
      
      Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
      Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
      Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
      Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
      Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
      Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      83e68189
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