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From: Borislav Petkov <bp-Gina5bIWoIWzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:32:59 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to
> efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old
> EFI memmap mechanism.  We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so we no
> longer need this quirk in the kernel.

So does that mean that all UV systems out there will get the BIOS update
or at least will have a BIOS update available so that we won't need the
quirk at all?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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