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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:14:16 -0700
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EFI support in x86-64?

Is EFI only support IA64?

Is acpi in EFI?

YH

On 7/14/05, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:52:58 -0700
> yhlu <yinghailu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Andi,
> >
> > How do yo think about make x86-64 kernel support openfirmware interface?
> 
> I don't like it. We already have the old x86 BIOS interfaces and ACPI
> and at some point EFI. No need for more.
> 
> -Andi
>