On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 03:04:00PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:51:04AM -0500, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > [..] > > A side note, though: We're going to have to figure out some way to > > determine whether or not to apply the old_map quirk on during boot > > anyway, so if it's easiest for you to just determine how the original > > kernel was booted and key off of that, then I wouldn't worry about > > finding a different method to get the firmware version in userspace, > > unless there are other reasons for you to do it that way. > > Agreed. Let kernel and firmware figure it out when to apply quirk and > user space should not worry about firmware version. > > I liked the other approach better where user space just needs to know > if 1:1 mapping are in effect or not and take decision based on that. > > So once SGI firmware gets fixed for 1:1 mapping, and kernel knows it, > then user space will not have to be changed at all. Sounds good to me. Working on a potential kernel fix as we speak. - Alex -- 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
