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<rrq>is uefi boot of hurd possible? I have a "Surface Go" to test on/with but I'm not sure it has "legacy boot"

<youpi>theorically, yes, but probably some pieces are missing

<rrq>ok; I'll explore it a bit ... also actually just found an instruction for forcing USB boot in legacy mode on it. So I have 2 lines of attack :)

<azeem>youpi: Alexander Lakhin reported to me privately that https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=32b236644 apparently fixed Postgres testsuite issues with bogus signal numbers like "TRAP: failed Assert("postgres_signal_arg < PG_NSIG"), File: "pqsignal.c", Line: 91, PID: 4254"

<azeem>do you have an idea why that would be cause I don't see it

<azeem>well, the patch itself isn't very informative, but AFAICT it is isolated to ps_status.c and it appears to just run additional code (https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c;hb=32b236644)

<azeem>youpi: nevermind, I think it was a thinko in his test script

<youpi>azeem: I have no idea either

<azeem>12:31 < azeem> youpi: nevermind, I think it was a thinko in his test script

<azeem>they ran killall postgres in a loop to trigger signal issues, but with the above patch, that now only sends a signal to the main process, not the other 30

<youpi>ok :)

<yang3>Hello, is HP Compaq 8710p compatible with hurd? It has integrated CD/DVD Rom and C2D CPU?

<yang3>Or is it only IBM ThinkPads, which are compatible?

<azeem>TIAS

<azeem>there's no hardware compatibility database, so you will have to see for yourself, and potentionally fix things up

<yang3>TIAS?

<yang3>Ok

<azeem>try it and see

<yang3>OK

<rrq>does anyone have Hurd amd64 booting on a UEFI boot platform?

<rrq>I'm getting an mboot load issue with /lib/ld-x86-64.so.1 ... and as I use syslinux boot equipment, I first want to explore the bug-in-syslinux option; so checking if someone has it booting and starting when using grub (efi)?

<damo22>i think some legacy bios services would be missing in uefi mode

<rrq>.. hmm that load error came from having only 2G RAM. It went away with 4G RAM. Apparently ld-x86-64.so.1 wants to be loaded at 0x01000000 (and up).

<rrq>thus, it's starting...though I don't get serial console output

<damo22>did you use console=com0,115200

<rrq>thanks. no..

<damo22>0x01000000 is 16MB?

<rrq>yes. I deleted the log; maybe it was 0x10000000 (?)

<damo22>thats still only 256MB

<rrq>right. yes; so then I'm not sure why it stopped the load error when I gave it 4G RAM... I may need to use gdb setup

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