Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967576Ab3DRXpL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:45:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:44042 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967396Ab3DRXpJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:45:09 -0400 Message-ID: <51708571.8080805@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:44:49 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Triplett CC: "Bryan O'Donoghue" , Matt Fleming , matthew.garrett@nebula.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Josh Boyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove warning in efi_enter_virtual_mode References: <1366127886-31460-1-git-send-email-bryan.odonoghue.lkml@nexus-software.ie> <516EAC4A.6040202@console-pimps.org> <516F1B90.9040508@nexus-software.ie> <516FD24A.3070502@console-pimps.org> <51706E8A.7030909@nexus-software.ie> <20130418230120.GA7078@jtriplet-mobl1> In-Reply-To: <20130418230120.GA7078@jtriplet-mobl1> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 28 On 04/18/2013 04:01 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'd much rather see the code do the right thing automatically, rather > than requiring an "unbreak me" command-line parameter. > > But in any case, since BGRT is a "make my system look prettier" feature > rather than core functionality, giving up on it on 32-bit EFI seems > fairly reasonable, especially since it may still work if stored > sufficiently low in memory. > No, it really isn't. Quite frankly, I don't understand why HIGHMEM makes it any harder... in a lot of ways HIGHMEM memory is easier to deal with because it is touched much later in the process. Sure, it has to be mapped before you can copy it out, but that usually isn't a big deal. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/