* Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I hope making it a weird boot option is not the end plan, there's > > little point in _not_ enabling 1:1 mappings by default eventually: > > the 1:1 mapping is supposed to emulate a "Windows compatible" EFI > > environment better and is expected to work around certain EFI runtime > > crashes. > > And yet there are the Macs which reportedly cannot stomach this. Do we know why? > And then there's the issue where some boxes cannot boot through the EFI > stub with those patches even without "efi=1:1_map" on the command line. > The issue has something to do with the "cmpb $0, efi_use_11_map" in the > efi_callX stubs. A bug I suspect? > And then again, other boxes have no problem with it and boot perfectly > fine. > > So I don't know - it all looks like a weird boot, opt-in option for now. But once it works reliably we can enable it, right? Thanks, Ingo -- 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
