[PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode

hpa@xxxxxxxxx (H. Peter Anvin) · Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:24:48 -0700

On 08/13/2010 12:18 PM, Takao Indoh wrote:
> 
> Basically EFI is in physical mode at first and it's switched to virtual
> mode after calling SetVirtualAddressMap. By applying this patch, you can
> run EFI always in physical mode. And you can also specify "virtefi" as
> kernel boot parameter to run EFI in virtual mode as before. Note that
> this patch supports only x86_64.
> 

Any hope to get a followon patch for i386 as well?  That would make it
largely a no-brainer.

Tony, does this affect ia64 in any way?

	-hpa