On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 19:11 +0200, Chris Boot wrote: > On 16 Jun 2013, at 18:51, Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@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.
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Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
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