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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:07:09 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable mapping for virtual EFI calls
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Anyone care to refresh my memory why we can't use the "global" 
1:1+kernel map, possibly with some improvements (which would benefit the 
users of those maps too)?  With that I mean initial_page_map on i386 and 
trampoline_pgd on x86-64...

	-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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