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 23:15:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803221537.GA4893@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lj8nfjf1.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:58:10PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Only if you have EFI runtime services enabled in your kernel. You can
> skip the efi junk and the kernel runs just fine. Doing what we do on
> every other platform which appears to be a combination of ACPI and
> direct hardware access appears to be good enough, and that is a path
> that actually gets tested regularly.
I think wanting to set the nvram variables so that your bootloader works
is a pretty typical usecase...
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 22:16 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
2010-08-03 21:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-03 22:15 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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