On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > What is going on with EFI support? We are still making efi calls in > virtual mode, and we don't have the one unified identity mapped physical > page table that hpa and I think others were working a while back. Even > if because of bugs we need to transition EFI to virtual mode we can > still set physical to virtual so we don't have to deal with the nonsense. No, we can't. It doesn't work. > Can we please make our EFI support ask the minimal from EFI before > adding lots more to it? No. > Am I wrong in thinking that the core motivation behind this patch is > that our EFI support sucks and thus kdump on EFI does not work on some > platforms? Yes, you are. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
