On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:08:08PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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.
Because Windows passes high addresses to SetVirtualAddressMap(), and because if you can imagine firmware developers getting it wrong then firmware developers will have got it wrong. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
