Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode

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From: H. Peter Anvin

Subject: Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode

Date: Friday, August 13, 2010 - 3:24 pm

On 08/13/2010 12:18 PM, Takao Indoh wrote:
quoted text> 
> Basically EFI is in physical mode at first and it's switched to virtual
> mode after calling SetVirtualAddressMap. By applying this patch, you can
> run EFI always in physical mode. And you can also specify "virtefi" as
> kernel boot parameter to run EFI in virtual mode as before. Note that
> this patch supports only x86_64.
> 

Any hope to get a followon patch for i386 as well?  That would make it
largely a no-brainer.

Tony, does this affect ia64 in any way?

	-hpa
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[PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Takao Indoh, (Fri Aug 13, 12:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 13, 3:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 13, 3:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 13, 3:28 pm)

RE: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 13, 3:33 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 13, 4:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 13, 4:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Tony Luck, (Fri Aug 13, 4:36 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Simon Horman, (Sun Aug 15, 6:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, huang ying, (Sun Aug 15, 6:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Aug 15, 8:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, huang ying, (Sun Aug 15, 9:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Aug 15, 10:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Takao Indoh, (Mon Aug 16, 12:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Aug 16, 4:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Aug 16, 4:54 pm)


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