Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:32:59 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to
> efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old
> EFI memmap mechanism.  We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so we no
> longer need this quirk in the kernel.

So does that mean that all UV systems out there will get the BIOS update
or at least will have a BIOS update available so that we won't need the
quirk at all?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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