Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: arm: [U]EFI runtime services

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 08:09:50AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 15:37 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > And yet it's the only mode in which the firmrware is actually tested 
> > against an OS, so we don't have any real choice in the matter.
> 
> Agree for x86 ... we just have to cope with the implementations we see
> in the field.  However, ARM has much more scope to have the UEFI
> implementation developed collaboratively with Linux as the reference
> platform.  If we can convince the ARM implementors that
> SetVirtualAddressMap is an accident waiting to happen, they might be
> more flexible.

The majority of existing ARM UEFI implementations have only ever been 
used to boot Windows, so like I said, this really isn't a safe 
assumption.

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