Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jun 20 2013 - 12:54:35 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:46:15AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> Unless you can think of the way out of this, we seem to have the stark
> choice of behave like windows or allow kexec. For the server market,
> kexec wins, so either we find a way not to have to make the choice or we
> do something automatic to make it fairly painless.

hpa suggested ensuring that UEFI regions are mapped at fixed high
offsets. Someone who cares about kexec should probably make that happen.

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