From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
"Tang, Feng" <feng.tang@intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 22:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803215346.GA4476@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14ofbgyki.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:45:33PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> EFI runtime calls have the nasty fact that they don't work in general even
> if EFI is present because you may have the wrong word size EFI running on
> your machine. A 32bit EFI and a 64bit kernel or a 64bit EFI and a 32bit kernel.
You've already failed to boot in that case.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-30 20:58 EFI runtime-services on x86_64 Bjorn Helgaas
2010-08-02 2:35 ` Feng Tang
2010-08-02 2:42 ` Huang Ying
2010-08-03 21:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-03 21:53 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-08-03 21:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-03 22:15 ` Matthew Garrett
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