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From: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matt.fleming@intel.com
Subject: Re: Proposal: EFI boot stub configuration file
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:36:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F63B250.1010200@shealevy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F63B093.9020104@zytor.com>

On 3/16/12 5:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> A file in UCS-2 seems messed up. 

Yeah, it seemed like a good way to let the code be dumb but upon 
reflection it'd just be a confusing inefficiency.

> Otherwise, seems like a reasonable idea, with a major caveat... since 
> the whole point of this is to do something when it isn't possible to 
> set NVRAM variables, it would make most sense to me if the 
> configuration file could be founin a specific location relative to the 
> kernel image itself.

OK. I'll try both approaches to see if the code complexity is greatly 
increased in the relative path case.

Cheers,
Shea

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-16 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-16 21:25 Proposal: EFI boot stub configuration file Shea Levy
2012-03-16 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-16 21:36   ` Shea Levy [this message]
2012-03-16 21:32 ` Shea Levy

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