From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
pjones@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:06:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ir4v5dk3.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071025095639.22f6cad0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:56:39 -0700")
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> I don't think there is a compelling case for us to use any efi
>> services at this time
>
> I would almost agree with this if it wasn't for the 1 call that OS
> installers need to tell EFI about bootloader stuff; I've cc'd Peter
> Jones since he'll know better what OS installers need; if they don't
> need it after all...
Yes. I think that is usage of the variable service. Although
I don't know if that is actually needed.
Support for the variable service is not implemented in this
patchset.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 6:57 [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support Huang, Ying
2007-10-25 16:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-25 16:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 16:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 16:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-25 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 17:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 22:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 22:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-26 2:31 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 2:14 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-25 17:06 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-10-26 1:28 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-25 17:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-25 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 17:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 2:12 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 1:03 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 8:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-26 9:30 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 10:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-26 11:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-26 11:31 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-26 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-29 1:05 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 3:36 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 4:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 17:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26 1:17 ` Huang, Ying
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