linux-kernel - Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

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Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:12:25 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Andrew Fish <afish@...le.com>
Cc:	edk2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:50:17AM -0700, Andrew Fish wrote:
> AFAICT EFI pre-dates kexec merge into mainline by a number of years as
> SetVirtualaddressMap() was part of EFI 1.0 (previous millennium)

Ok, fair enough.

> The EFI to UEFI conversion was placing EFI 1.10 into an industry
> standard, UEFI 2.0. UEFI is an industry standard so some one just
> needs to make a proposal to update the spec. The edk2 open source
> project is not part of the standards body so complaining on this
> mailing list is not going to get anything changed.

Right, I don't think that even changing the spec would help - it would
actually make things worse because then we'd have to differentiate
between UEFI versions: those which can do SetVirtualaddressMap() more
than once and the older ones.

So let's drop the discussion here - it is what it is, it is too late to
change anything. At least we talked about it. :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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