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Message-ID: <4DC9A3A2.20000@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:44:18 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, "xiyou.wangcong@...il.com" <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, "mikew@...gle.com" <mikew@...gle.com>, "a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "tj@...nel.org" <tj@...nel.org>, "fweisbec@...il.com" <fweisbec@...il.com>, "dle-develop@...ts.sourceforge.net" <dle-develop@...ts.sourceforge.net>, Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@....com> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] pstore: EFI Support On 05/10/2011 12:18 PM, Seiji Aguchi wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your comments. > >> Btw, is this case of the possibility for APEI of corrupting NVRAM >> storage something you actually experienced on a real machine or simply a >> conclusion from looking at APEI code doing ioremap()? > > I simply concluded from looking at ioremap() of APEI code. > The thing is that you're effectively betting that the EFI method will be less broken than our kernels. That is not at all given... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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