Re: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: Disable if CONFIG_EFI=y

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Nov 05 2012 - 07:02:31 EST


> There is the 'efi_enabled' variable, but it doesn't strictly mean
> "this_is_a_uefi_system()", it actually means "Do we have EFI runtime
> services?". The whole thing is a bit of a mess and I'm planning on
> cleaning it up this week.


As far as I can understand it we should be reserving those areas on a
UEFI booted machine and just marking them as busy so that they are not
available to any drivers to go peering into.

Alan

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