From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "huang ying" <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
"Chandramouli Narayanan" <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:23:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708081823.44324.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <851fc09e0708080811l1e17255ctef617d9137a8c045@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:11:54 huang ying wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > > Instead, elilo collects the needed information
> > > defined in include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h itself,
> >
> > That's nasty. I must have missed when we declared this a public ABI.
> > It's not really designed to be one. Was there public discussion on this?
>
> Maybe What I said is not clear and correct. In fact, the elilo follows
> the boot protocol defined in Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt,
No that's not the boot protocol. The boot protocol is in Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> just
> not uses arch/(i386|x86_64)/boot/setup.S to collect the information,
> but collects them by elilo itself. Information in
> include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h is just a part of that in
> Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt.
That's an internal interface that is not really suitable to use
by other programs. e.g. it is not extensible (unlike the boot protocol)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 3:13 [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document Huang, Ying
2007-07-31 4:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-07-31 6:58 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-01 17:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 9:29 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-07 9:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 8:18 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-08 10:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 13:46 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-08 14:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 15:11 ` huang ying
2007-08-08 16:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-08 16:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 16:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-09 9:47 Etienne Lorrain
2007-08-09 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 14:09 ` huang ying
2007-08-09 16:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-09 17:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-10 13:03 ` Huang, Ying
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