From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:09:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C476C2.3020506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187251248.15063.12.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
Huang, Ying wrote:
>
> One question:
>
> The boot_params.efi_info.efi_systab is defined as u32. But it should be
> u64 on x86_64, because it comes from firmware and is not controlled by
> bootloader. But, changing it from u32 to u64 will break current i386 EFI
> support, should we change it and fix the i386 EFI bootloader?
>
The other option is to have a union of a 32-bit and a 64-bit structure.
I personally don't care, as long as it's consistent, but I think you
need to deal with the people working on EFI currently about that...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-13 7:30 [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support Huang, Ying
2007-08-15 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-16 7:51 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-16 14:11 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-17 1:25 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-17 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-20 3:20 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-20 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-21 1:44 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-21 3:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-21 4:53 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-21 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-21 10:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-21 11:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-21 23:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-08-22 1:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 6:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-08-22 11:11 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 14:23 ` huang ying
2007-08-22 16:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-23 2:21 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-23 2:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-22 14:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-22 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-22 7:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-08-15 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-15 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-16 8:00 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-16 16:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-08-19 22:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-19 22:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-19 23:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-08-20 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-20 17:20 ` San Mehat
2007-08-20 20:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-08-20 5:14 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-16 7:52 ` Huang, Ying
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