Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161179Ab3FTRBg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:01:36 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:36398 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758006Ab3FTRBd (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:01:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:01:24 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Matthew Garrett Cc: James Bottomley , Ingo Molnar , Linux EFI , Matt Fleming , X86 ML , LKML , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping Message-ID: <20130620170124.GA19877@pd.tnic> References: <20130619160804.GB27832@srcf.ucam.org> <20130620091321.GB6811@gmail.com> <20130620091537.GA17159@srcf.ucam.org> <20130620092237.GA6943@gmail.com> <20130620093337.GI32694@pd.tnic> <20130620094446.GA17882@srcf.ucam.org> <1371740019.2372.3.camel@dabdike> <20130620162916.GA25727@srcf.ucam.org> <1371746775.2372.11.camel@dabdike> <20130620165426.GB26214@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130620165426.GB26214@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 26 On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:54:26PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. If we can detect the Macs, we can make this decision automatic. And since no Mac boots windoze, a single DMI check of the sort "if (Mac)" should suffice. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- 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/