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    efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot · 234fa51d
    Ard Biesheuvel authored
    We currently pass a minimum major version to the generic EFI helper that
    checks the system table magic and version, and refuse to boot if the
    value is lower.
    
    The motivation for this check is unknown, and even the code that uses
    major version 2 as the minimum (ARM, arm64 and RISC-V) should make it
    past this check without problems, and boot to a point where we have
    access to a console or some other means to inform the user that the
    firmware's major revision number made us unhappy. (Revision 2.0 of the
    UEFI specification was released in January 2006, whereas ARM, arm64 and
    RISC-V support where added in 2009, 2013 and 2017, respectively, so
    checking for major version 2 or higher is completely arbitrary)
    
    So just drop the check.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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