[ipxe-devel] Issue when booting linux kernels when in UEFI mode

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| On 29/07/16 18:56, James A. Peltier wrote:
| > | Could you try temporarily reverting
| > |
| > |    http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/757ab98
| > |
| > | and see if that fixes your Dell systems?
| > |
| > | I have had several reports of that commit (which is required for ARM
| > | support) causing problems on some x86 systems.  Unfortunately I have not
| > | been able to reproduce the problem myself.
| >
| > Okay, so I did a git revert 757ab98 followed by a git commit -a -m "revert
| > to 757ab98" and the compile fails with the error
| >
| > interface/efi/efi_timer.c:100: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before
| > ‘<<’ token
| > interface/efi/efi_timer.c:149:19: error: invalid suffix "ab98..." on
| > integer constant
| 
| The revert could not apply cleanly since there was another intermediate
| commit which touched the same file.  From a clean copy of the current
| master, try instead:
| 
|    git revert 694c18a
|    git revert 757ab98

Reverting these commits and my Dell R410 test machine was able to UEFI boot again.


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