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

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Jun 20 2013 - 12:46:04 EST


On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Matthew Garrett 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

How so? Windows don't work on those older Macs as well, do they?

So if we properly detect those (and only those), we mimic Windows
completely, right?

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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