On 09/27/2015 11:16 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So the question is, what does Windows do? > > PC firmware is a hostile environment for Linux, to be compatible the best we can > do is to mimic the environment that the firmware is tested under - i.e. try to use > the firmware in the way Windows uses it. > Windows apparently went through the same exercise of breakage followed by a fix. It is unknown if Windows will preserve gaps since those are not manifest on existing firmware. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html