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Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 01:36:20 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: Correct ident mapping of efi old_map when
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On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:42:14PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> (Including the folks from SGI since this was hit on a UV system)

Wasn't there a BIOS fix supplied at some point which obviated the need
to boot with efi=old_map on SGI boxes?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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