Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161135Ab3FTQp7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:45:59 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41659 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161046Ab3FTQp6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:45:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:44:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jikos@twin.jikos.cz To: Matthew Garrett Cc: James Bottomley , Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , Linux EFI , Matt Fleming , X86 ML , LKML , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping In-Reply-To: <20130620162916.GA25727@srcf.ucam.org> Message-ID: References: <20130619125243.GD11209@gmail.com> <20130619130225.GA28311@pd.tnic> <20130619130434.GB24957@gmail.com> <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> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 22 On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Matthew Garrett 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 How so? Windows don't work on those older Macs as well, do they? So if we properly detect those (and only those), we mimic Windows completely, right? -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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/