Re: [RFC PATCH] efi/x86: limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV1 machines

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> looks like mfleming meant the opposite: some apple laptops don't like
> the 1:1 runtime mapping. But there might be more and I believe mjg59 had
> some use case at the time but I could be remembering it wrong.

I've lost most of the context for this over the years, I'm afraid. The 
case I remember was that the EFI reboot code on some hardware would 
attempt to access physical addresses and we wanted some form of 1:1 
mapping to handle that, but I really don't remember what the larger 
details were.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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