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Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:54:26 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	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 09:46:15AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> Unless you can think of the way out of this, we seem to have the stark
> choice of behave like windows or allow kexec.  For the server market,
> kexec wins, so either we find a way not to have to make the choice or we
> do something automatic to make it fairly painless.

hpa suggested ensuring that UEFI regions are mapped at fixed high 
offsets. Someone who cares about kexec should probably make that happen.

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