From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:12:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20130620171210.GA26593@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20130620091321.GB6811@gmail.com> <20130620091537.GA17159@srcf.ucam.org> <20130620092237.GA6943@gmail.com> <20130620093337.GI32694@pd.tnic> <20130620094446.GA17882@srcf.ucam.org> <1371740019.2372.3.camel@dabdike> <20130620162916.GA25727@srcf.ucam.org> <1371746775.2372.11.camel@dabdike> <20130620165426.GB26214@srcf.ucam.org> <20130620170124.GA19877@pd.tnic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130620170124.GA19877@pd.tnic> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Borislav Petkov Cc: James Bottomley , Ingo Molnar , Linux EFI , Matt Fleming , X86 ML , LKML , Borislav Petkov List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:01:24PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. Yes, we can special-case Macs. But since our behaviour is then obviously different to Windows, we'll inevitably break some other system. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org