Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 17 2015 - 14:33:16 EST


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to
> efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old
> EFI memmap mechanism. We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so we no
> longer need this quirk in the kernel.

So does that mean that all UV systems out there will get the BIOS update
or at least will have a BIOS update available so that we won't need the
quirk at all?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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