Hi All,
A fellow laptop user has been looking into efi=novamap requirement. I was sharing with him that I thought only firmware could solve this problem and he has questioned me on that assertion and pointed me to this commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=4e46c...
It appears from my reading that efi=novamap is required because: It is fiddly to make the kernel function SetVirtualAddressMap() work correctly on AArch64. Without documentation for the laptops I care about, it does not appear to be a valuable use of time to make SetVirtualAddressMap() work. For now, efi=novamap is a good-enough work-around.
Is that more a more accurate analysis on my part?
best regards, Richard
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