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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:52:43 +0200
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* Borislav Petkov <bp-Gina5bIWoIWzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> this is just a snapshot of the current state of affairs. The patchset
> starts to boot successfully on real hardware now but we're far away from
> the coverage we'd like to have before we even consider upstreaming it.

Looks pretty clean.

> And yes, considering the sick f*ck EFI is, we're keeping the 1:1 mapping
> optional and off by default (you need to boot with "efi=1:1_map" to
> enable it).

I hope making it a weird boot option is not the end plan, there's little 
point in _not_ enabling 1:1 mappings by default eventually: the 1:1 
mapping is supposed to emulate a "Windows compatible" EFI environment 
better and is expected to work around certain EFI runtime crashes.

Thanks,

	Ingo