From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757139Ab3FSQFj (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:05:39 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:38331 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756845Ab3FSQFh (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:05:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:05:23 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux EFI , Matt Fleming , X86 ML , LKML , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping Message-ID: <20130619160523.GA27832@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1371491416-11037-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <20130619125243.GD11209@gmail.com> <20130619130225.GA28311@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130619130225.GA28311@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:02:25PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I hope making it a weird boot option is not the end plan, there's > > little point in _not_ enabling 1:1 mappings by default eventually: > > the 1:1 mapping is supposed to emulate a "Windows compatible" EFI > > environment better and is expected to work around certain EFI runtime > > crashes. > > And yet there are the Macs which reportedly cannot stomach this. I suspect they'll be fine with having a 1:1 map, as long as we pass the high mappings via SetVirtualAddressMap(). -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org