linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:15:37 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux EFI <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:13:21AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Cool - and supposedly this will work in a Mac environment as well? Would 
> be very nice to avoid fundamentally fragile system specific quirks for 
> something as fundamental as the EFI runtime memory mapping model ...

Apple is the only case where I'd expect there to be an issue, since they 
only started supporting booting Windows via UEFI on very recent systems. 
However, unless they're actually sniffing the page tables on UEFI entry, 
I can't see any way that this could break things…

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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