Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:25:42PM -0500, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/19/2013 08:02 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > 
> > And yet there are the Macs which reportedly cannot stomach this.
> > 
> No, the reports are that if you use the 1:1 map as the primary address
> on Macs the drivers fail... not that you can't have a 1:1 map.

That's what I meant: ... cannot stomach when the 1:1 map is shoved down
SetVirtualAddressMap.

The thing is, if we want to have both the 1:1 map and the high map
during an EFI runtime call, we would need to *always* switch the
pagetable for an EFI runtime call and establish both mappings in
->trampoline_pgd beforehand.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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