From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757611Ab2AESVx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:21:53 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:35099 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753099Ab2AESVw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:21:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:21:49 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Olof Johansson Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86: efi: allow basic init with mixed 32/64-bit efi/kernel Message-ID: <20120105182149.GB24242@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1325610682-24811-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> <1325610682-24811-6-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1325610682-24811-6-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This seems like a reasonable step, but outside some special cases it's not going to be terribly useful - general purpose EFI machines aren't going to boot unless you can set the boot variable, which requires runtime services. ChromeOS machines presumably have their own way of handling this so I've no objection to adding it if it helps them, but just wanted to make sure people knew that it's something that we'd still need to fix up if we want this to work elsewhere. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org