Bug#883193: grub2 Unable to boot on some newer Intel silicon

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:27:00AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Some changes have been made in upcoming Intel silicon that will prevent GRUB2
> from booting on Debian.  The 8254 clock is gated meaning when GRUB2 calibrates
> it's time source it hangs indefinitely.
> 
> This issue has been fixed upstream by Intel.
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=446794de8da4329ea532cbee4ca877bcafd0e534
> 
> Would you please consider to adopt this fix in Debian?

Cherry-picked for the next upload.  Thanks for the heads-up.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]