Call for Testing: UEFI Changes

[Kyle Evans]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:38 AM, Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon at dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> Confirmed both loader (with boot1) part and efirt.ko part.
> Working OK on my ThinkPad420 (with nvidia GPU) at r331864.
>
> No benefit (VGA resolution) but no new harm (no panic nor silent
> reboot).
>
>  *Maybe gracefully falling back to mode 0.
>

Did you pick up the change on head that calls maybe-efi-resizecons?

On my X220, this bumps my resolution up to 1024x768.

> As I'm on x11/nvidia-driver, completely no test is done with
> drm-next.

This is ok. =)

> One more to mention.
> I've cherry-picked r330868, r331241 and r331361 on stable/11 after
> r331114, amd64 and works OK as on head.
> Additional cherry-picking of r331365 is OK, too.
>
> Without r330868, my ThinkPad silently reboots within about 10-60
> minutes range, maybe by actual access to UEFI RS.
> With r331241 without r331361 causes instant panic on loading efirt.ko.
> So all 3 (4) revs should be MFC'ed together.

Good to hear! We've marked all four of these to be MFC'd in one batch
anyways, just to make sure we don't horribly break things. We seem to
be in a pretty stable state at the moment on head from what I'm
hearing.

> Sorry for delay.

No worries. =)