From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750766AbWCIWT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:19:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751764AbWCIWT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:19:29 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:24742 "EHLO azsmga101-1.ch.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbWCIWT2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:19:28 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.02,180,1139212800"; d="scan'208"; a="11854658:sNHT99624847" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [PATCH] /sys/firmware/efi/systab giving incorrect value for smbios Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:19:24 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PATCH] /sys/firmware/efi/systab giving incorrect value for smbios thread-index: AcY/vlNJZEUb6JAaRhO0v+KXZyCNTwECLMng From: "Tolentino, Matthew E" To: "Matthew Garrett" , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2006 22:19:25.0980 (UTC) FILETIME=[8671DDC0:01C643C7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Garrett <> wrote: > Or, as an alternative, remove the virtual to physical mapping that > efivars does. This requires fixing up IA64 to match. I've no idea > which approach is right. There's a patch (or set of patches?) in -mm from Bjorn that does this (retain the physical addresses), which I believe is the best approach. Particularly considering it alleviates a bunch of back-and-forth calculations in ACPI. matt