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SubjectRe: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: Disable if CONFIG_EFI=y
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On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 12:07 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > There is the 'efi_enabled' variable, but it doesn't strictly mean
> > "this_is_a_uefi_system()", it actually means "Do we have EFI runtime
> > services?". The whole thing is a bit of a mess and I'm planning on
> > cleaning it up this week.
>
>
> As far as I can understand it we should be reserving those areas on a
> UEFI booted machine and just marking them as busy so that they are not
> available to any drivers to go peering into.

Yes, that would be the best way to resolve this going forward.

--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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