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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:34:51 +0100
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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        Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: Safely enable unaccepted memory in UEFI
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  Hi,

> In any case, the firmware side of things didn't seem like _that_ much
> code.  So, I'm not protesting *that* strongly.  But, I also don't
> believe for a second that this is going to be removed in 3-5 years.

If things are going roughly as I expect them to go (both tdx support and
unaccepted memory support land upstream this year; distros enable it by
default) we should be able to drop this when the 6.1-lts kernel goes
EOL.  First in edk2, later in linux too.

take care,
  Gerd