Re: [RFC][PATCH] pstore: EFI Support

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/10/2011 12:18 PM, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your comments.
>
> > Btw, is this case of the possibility for APEI of corrupting NVRAM
> > storage something you actually experienced on a real machine or simply a
> > conclusion from looking at APEI code doing ioremap()?
>
> I simply concluded from looking at ioremap() of APEI code.

The thing is that you're effectively betting that the EFI method will be 
less broken than our kernels.  That is not at all given...

	-hpa
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