From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754518Ab3HESM2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 14:12:28 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:34785 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752927Ab3HESM1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 14:12:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:12:25 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andrew Fish Cc: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Laszlo Ersek , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov , lkml , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region Message-ID: <20130805181225.GH31845@pd.tnic> References: <20130731205431.GG4724@pd.tnic> <1375307727.22084.103.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20130801164927.GA7445@pd.tnic> <51FF8C14.2070405@redhat.com> <20130805130258.GB31845@pd.tnic> <51FFAB13.4090603@redhat.com> <20130805140306.GD31845@pd.tnic> <51FFB660.4060400@redhat.com> <20130805144010.GE31845@pd.tnic> <2DBE3EA4-E321-4A7B-B9AF-EDE55BC2E358@apple.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2DBE3EA4-E321-4A7B-B9AF-EDE55BC2E358@apple.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. :-) Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [edk2] Corrupted EFI region Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:12:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20130805181225.GH31845@pd.tnic> References: <20130731205431.GG4724@pd.tnic> <1375307727.22084.103.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20130801164927.GA7445@pd.tnic> <51FF8C14.2070405@redhat.com> <20130805130258.GB31845@pd.tnic> <51FFAB13.4090603@redhat.com> <20130805140306.GD31845@pd.tnic> <51FFB660.4060400@redhat.com> <20130805144010.GE31845@pd.tnic> <2DBE3EA4-E321-4A7B-B9AF-EDE55BC2E358@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2DBE3EA4-E321-4A7B-B9AF-EDE55BC2E358-2kanFRK1NckAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Fish Cc: edk2-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Laszlo Ersek , linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Gleb Natapov , lkml , David Woodhouse List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org 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. :-) Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --