The only real use for command line options is to be able to get users to test something during troubleshooting. Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:05:41PM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote: >> Some EFI BIOS stores BGRT data in the wrong place and some EFI based >> BIOS also requires mapping of boot code/data when doing >> efi_enter_virtual_mode. >> >> Current code in efi_enter_virtual_mode maps both EFI_RUNTIME_MEMORY >and >> BIOS boot code/data. >> >> This patch gives the option to switch off that behavior - if your >BIOS >> has neither BGRT - nor bugs that require mapping of EFI boot >code/data > >No, never add new boot options, no users, or distros, know to set them. >Isn't there some way we can dynamically determine this instead? > >thanks, > >greg k-h -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
