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SubjectRe: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: Disable if CONFIG_EFI=y
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Acked-by: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
>
> This is totally bogus and prevents users build a kernel which can work in
> either mode. As such its a regression.

Arg.. Sorry for that, I didn't realized that CONFIG_EFI=y was not
something rare these days.

> Do the detection check at runtime. If it was booted via EFI then don't
> grovel in places you shouldn't. Indeed its possible EFI should reserve
> those memory regions ?

I wonder how the windows driver works in this case.. Maybe they use
something completly different, and the SABI interface is still there
because nobody removed/disabled it ? In this case it's probably not a
good idea to use it on these machines since the implementation is
likely to be completly broken.

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Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net


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