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

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Message-ID: <20130620091321.GB6811@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:13:21 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.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


* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:04:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> > > And yet there are the Macs which reportedly cannot stomach this.
> > 
> > Do we know why?
> 
> I got lost in a maze of pointer arithmetic. There seems to be an 
> assumption that nvram writes should be forbidden if in runtime mode but 
> with pointers still below the phys/virt split, which obviously makes no 
> sense but hey.
> 
> But, as always, the only reliable thing to do here is to behave as much 
> like Windows as possible. [...]

Amen ...

> [...] Which means performing the 1:1 mapping but maintaining the high 
> mapping, and passing the high values via SetVirtualAddressMap.

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 ...

Thanks,

	Ingo
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