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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: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:23:16 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:00:47AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We should at least check the BIOS version via a DMI quirk and panic in some nicely 
> informative 'upgrade your BIOS!' way to ease the transition ...

Or since we're touching BIOS anyway, maybe stick a bit somewhere which
says "EFI is fixed/quirk not needed anymore" when set and software can
check that bit instead of checking BIOS versions...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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