On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 19:11 +0200, Chris Boot wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2013, at 18:51, Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 17:27 +0100, Gary Hawkins wrote:
> >> It appears that OVMF r14423 which I've compiled just now (after I
> >> discovered that I wasn't on the latest OVMF as they'd move the svn
> >> repository) no longer causes the kernel to oops and seems to make
> >> efibootmgr work properly.
> >
> > So, not a kernel bug at all.
> >
> > Ben.
>
> Ben,
>
> Is it not a bug that this causes the kernel to panic? Or is that something that bad EFI code can do?
The kernel cannot be expected to defend against arbitrary bugs in
firmware code.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
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