From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:37:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710261337.03465.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710261027260.3186@localhost.localdomain>
> I still do not understand why we need all this EFI hackery at all
> aside of the possible usage for saving a crash dump on FLASH, which we
> could do directly from the kernel as well.
Battery backed up RAM not Flash. The layout of that RAM is BIOS dependent so
we need some BIOS support for change it. Essentially it's a way to put
something into the BIOS event log.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 11:40 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
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 [this message]
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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