Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753621Ab3HEOkP (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:40:15 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:33844 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753026Ab3HEOkM (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:40:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:40:10 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Laszlo Ersek Cc: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, David Woodhouse , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Gleb Natapov , Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region Message-ID: <20130805144010.GE31845@pd.tnic> References: <20130731205431.GG4724@pd.tnic> <1375307727.22084.103.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20130801164927.GA7445@pd.tnic> <51FF8C14.2070405@redhat.com> <20130805130258.GB31845@pd.tnic> <51FFAB13.4090603@redhat.com> <20130805140306.GD31845@pd.tnic> <51FFB660.4060400@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51FFB660.4060400@redhat.com> 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: 1218 Lines: 34 On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:27:44PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > I wouldn't call the design of SetVirtualAddressMap() braindead. Ok, I've always wondered and you could probably shed some light on the matter: why is SetVirtualAddressMap() a call-once only? Why can't I simply call it again and update the mappings? > I'd rather call kexec unique and somewhat unexpected :) In all fairness, it was there before UEFI, AFAICT. > > I wouldn't wonder if we f*cked it up again like the last time. I'll give > > it a long hard look. > > Ah sorry, by "and you guys suspect" I didn't mean to imply anything > between the lines, I was simply trying to ascertain your working idea :) As long as we get to the bottom of this, we're all fine. And I'd pretty much expect everyone who is dealing with EFI to have grown a sufficiently thick skin before starting to do so, so don't worry. :-) -- 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/