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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jun 20 2013 - 14:08:21 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:12:10PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:01:24PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > If we can detect the Macs, we can make this decision automatic. And
> > since no Mac boots windoze, a single DMI check of the sort "if (Mac)"
> > should suffice.
>
> Yes, we can special-case Macs. But since our behaviour is then obviously
> different to Windows, we'll inevitably break some other system.

Why different? We'll have the high mappings and shove the 1:1 mappings
down SetVirtualAddressMap by default.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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