On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 06:52:44AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:44:30AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I and Borislav actually came up with a reasonable solution for SVAM(). > > It sadly creates a new ABI, but at least is (a) reasonable and (b) > > seems to match Windows close enough. Basically the regions should get > > mapped one by one from -4 GB downwards. > > Yep, and the mapping works both on OVMF and on my baremetal box. I'm > currently on vacation but will send out the final stuff when I get back. > > Teaching the kexec-ed kernel to simply use those mappings *without* > doing SVAM() should be easy afterwards. Ah, that sounds great, if you need me to test anything, just let me know, I have some UEFI test boxes I've been working on here... thanks, greg k-h -- 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