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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:41:56 +0000
Subject: Re: fix memory corruption/crash for physical-mode EFI calls
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>>>>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:54:05 -0700, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said:

  Jesse> On Friday, July 9, 2004 9:39 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
  >> I think you'll want to try out the patch below.  If my guess is
  >> correct and the SGI firmware doesn't support switching into
  >> virtual mode, then this may fix the boot-problem you are seeing
  >> on SN2.

  Jesse> I believe we do.  IIRC we can call into our PROM in either
  Jesse> physical or virtual mode.

Ah, in that case the patch won't help.  Too bad.

	--david