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

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jun 20 2013 - 12:29:35 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:53:39AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> Can't we detect Macs from some of the UEFI strings at boot time and do
> the right thing with the boot switch (which can be overriden from the
> kernel command line if we get it wrong)?

Yes, and then our behaviour differs from Windows and so we'll have
inevitably broken some other system.

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