From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES rather than EFI_BOOT
 by "noefi" boot parameter
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:20:30 -0800
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On 02/13/2013 04:12 PM, Satoru Takeuchi wrote:
> From: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> There was a serious problem in samsung-laptop that its platform driver is
> designed to run under BIOS and running under EFI can cause the machine to
> become bricked or can cause Machine Check Exceptions.
> 

Matt, unless you object I'll pick this one up as urgent, please take the
cleanup patch in normal order.

	-hpa