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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:01:24 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:54:26PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:46:15AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > Unless you can think of the way out of this, we seem to have the stark
> > choice of behave like windows or allow kexec.  For the server market,
> > kexec wins, so either we find a way not to have to make the choice or we
> > do something automatic to make it fairly painless.
> 
> hpa suggested ensuring that UEFI regions are mapped at fixed high 
> offsets. Someone who cares about kexec should probably make that happen.

If we can detect the Macs, we can make this decision automatic. And
since no Mac boots windoze, a single DMI check of the sort "if (Mac)"
should suffice.

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