From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:29:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186478984.3769.46.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r6mnnpj8.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 01:16 +0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > The parameters are rearranged, because the pointer is too small. For
> > example, the EFI system table pointer is 8 bytes in x86_64, while it
> is
> > 4 bytes in i386.
>
> Ok. I see what is happening. When the documentation is for arch/i386
> unsigned long is 4 bytes, and you are using unsigned long to mean 8
> bytes. For an 8 byte fields please just spell out the size as 8
> bytes.
Ok. Will do in the next version.
>
> How does EFI handle 32bit/64bit compatibility? In particular
> how do I load a 32bit kernel on machine with a 64bit EFI? Can
> it be done?
>
Because the EFI memory map is converted to E820 map in bootloader now,
it is possible to load 32bit kernel on machine with a 64bit EFI. But it
is almost impossible to call EFI runtime service in 32bit kernel. But I
think EFI runtime service is not essential in this situation, because
the raw hardware can be used too.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 3:13 [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document Huang, Ying
2007-07-31 4:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-07-31 6:58 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-01 17:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 9:29 ` Huang, Ying [this message]
2007-08-07 9:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 8:18 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-08 10:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 13:46 ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-08 14:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 15:11 ` huang ying
2007-08-08 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 16:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 16:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-09 9:47 Etienne Lorrain
2007-08-09 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 14:09 ` huang ying
2007-08-09 16:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-09 17:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-10 13:03 ` Huang, Ying
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