From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UEFI Plugfest 2013 -- New Orleans
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:00:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819160018.GA22532@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376925765.2069.24.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:22:45AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 13:55 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:25:35AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > > Every deviation from the spec (or common sense), however minor, should
> > > show up as a clear failure. Even the ones we *have* been able to work
> > > around, because we still want them *fixed*.
> >
> > Why? It's not like we can ever stop carrying that code.
>
> The reason for doing it is that we have a buildable reference
> implementation that's fully spec compliant we can then make the basis of
> a test suite for UEFI.
And why's that a benefit? Nobody's ever going to be able to ship an OS
that doesn't implement these workarounds - they're de-facto part of the
spec. It'd make more sense to document them officially.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-16 15:20 UEFI Plugfest 2013 -- New Orleans John W. Linville
2013-08-16 15:20 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20130816152030.GL2133-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-17 0:44 ` James Bottomley
2013-08-17 0:44 ` James Bottomley
2013-08-19 8:25 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <1376900735.2322.26.camel-Fexsq3y4057IgHVZqg5X0TlWvGAXklZc@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 12:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 12:55 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20130819125507.GA19093-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 15:22 ` James Bottomley
2013-08-19 15:22 ` James Bottomley
2013-08-19 16:00 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
[not found] ` <20130819160018.GA22532-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 17:02 ` James Bottomley
2013-08-19 17:02 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <1376931775.2069.46.camel-sFMDBYUN5F8GjUHQrlYNx2Wm91YjaHnnhRte9Li2A+AAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 17:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 17:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 17:38 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <1376933926.2069.52.camel-sFMDBYUN5F8GjUHQrlYNx2Wm91YjaHnnhRte9Li2A+AAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 17:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 17:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 20:09 ` David Woodhouse
2013-08-19 20:09 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <1376942994.2322.39.camel-Fexsq3y4057IgHVZqg5X0TlWvGAXklZc@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 20:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 20:19 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20130819201952.GA28740-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 20:21 ` David Woodhouse
2013-08-19 20:21 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <1376943671.2322.40.camel-Fexsq3y4057IgHVZqg5X0TlWvGAXklZc@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 20:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 20:39 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20130819203937.GA28967-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 21:06 ` David Woodhouse
2013-08-19 21:06 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <1376946411.5087.2.camel-Fexsq3y4057IgHVZqg5X0TlWvGAXklZc@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-19 21:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-19 21:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-09-02 7:42 ` Alex Elsayed
2013-09-02 6:23 ` Matt Fleming
2013-09-02 6:23 ` Matt Fleming
2013-08-19 15:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-19 15:17 ` Borislav Petkov
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