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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:29:16 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:53:39AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> Can't we detect Macs from some of the UEFI strings at boot time and do
> the right thing with the boot switch (which can be overriden from the
> kernel command line if we get it wrong)?

Yes, and then our behaviour differs from Windows and so we'll have 
inevitably broken some other system.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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