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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86, efi: Add an efi= kernel command line parameter
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:27:17 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:18:28PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> kexec seems like a lower priority than compatibility. Perhaps keep the
> efi argument for people who want to use kexec?

This is what I currently have in the code: if you boot with efi=1:1_map,
you get them.

> hpa suggested allocating a fixed high area for UEFI mappings, which
> would also solve this.

I guess we can do that too.

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