On 08/05/2013 11:12 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:50:17AM -0700, Andrew Fish wrote: >> AFAICT EFI pre-dates kexec merge into mainline by a number of years as >> SetVirtualaddressMap() was part of EFI 1.0 (previous millennium) > > Ok, fair enough. > >> The EFI to UEFI conversion was placing EFI 1.10 into an industry >> standard, UEFI 2.0. UEFI is an industry standard so some one just >> needs to make a proposal to update the spec. The edk2 open source >> project is not part of the standards body so complaining on this >> mailing list is not going to get anything changed. > > Right, I don't think that even changing the spec would help - it would > actually make things worse because then we'd have to differentiate > between UEFI versions: those which can do SetVirtualaddressMap() more > than once and the older ones. > > So let's drop the discussion here - it is what it is, it is too late to > change anything. At least we talked about it. :-) > All of this would be a non-problem if there weren't buggy implementations which can't run *without* SetVirtualAddressMap(). -=hpa -- 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
