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On 09/27/2015 11:16 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> So the question is, what does Windows do?
> 
> PC firmware is a hostile environment for Linux, to be compatible the best we can 
> do is to mimic the environment that the firmware is tested under - i.e. try to use 
> the firmware in the way Windows uses it.
> 

Windows apparently went through the same exercise of breakage followed
by a fix.  It is unknown if Windows will preserve gaps since those are
not manifest on existing firmware.

	-hpa