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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode
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To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, tglx@linutronix.de, vgoyal@redhat.com

On 08/13/2010 12:18 PM, Takao Indoh wrote:
> 
> Basically EFI is in physical mode at first and it's switched to virtual
> mode after calling SetVirtualAddressMap. By applying this patch, you can
> run EFI always in physical mode. And you can also specify "virtefi" as
> kernel boot parameter to run EFI in virtual mode as before. Note that
> this patch supports only x86_64.
> 

Any hope to get a followon patch for i386 as well?  That would make it
largely a no-brainer.

Tony, does this affect ia64 in any way?

	-hpa

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