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  2. RHEL-33355

[EDK2] add support for 5-level paging to OVMF [rhel-10]

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      Goal

      • Needed to allow OVMF support larger address space.

      Virtual memory as concept does not exist in EFI, so the firmware runs with an identity mapping. So managing a large physical address space (>47 phys-bits) depends on a large virtual address space.

              rhn-engineering-ghoffman Gerd Hoffmann
              rhn-engineering-ghoffman Gerd Hoffmann
              virt-maint virt-maint
              Xueqiang Wei Xueqiang Wei
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