Re: [PATCH] Fix efifb initialisation when the only GOP device implements ConOut.

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On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 17:58 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Ignore this case? You can't run 32-bit kernels on 64-bit EFI, or 
> vice-versa. You'll die on the first call to UEFI services.

The kernel has code to avoid calling UEFI services in that case. Even if
we don't want to support that (any more?), we should at least fail
gracefully rather than just jumping to the wrong entry point and having
RandomShit™ happening.

-- 
dwmw2

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