Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support

Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25T17:08:15Z

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