Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: Disable if CONFIG_EFI=y | From | Matt Fleming <> | Date | Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:09:46 +0000 |
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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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