RE: [PATCH] /sys/firmware/efi/systab giving incorrect value for smbios

From: Tolentino, Matthew E
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 17:16:54 EST


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
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