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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, eboot: Support initrd loaded above 4G
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:44:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C54C62.8070403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140715151025.GB32039@console-pimps.org>

On 07/15/2014 08:10 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> 
> Going forward, I suspect any attempts to use the EFI File Protocol are
> going to result in this kind of breakage, and that the only thing that
> can be relied upon is the Disk I/O Protocol.
> 

Do we know what the Windows bootloader does?  I thought it did use the
EFI File Protocol?
	
	-hpa


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-14 19:23 [PATCH] x86, eboot: Support initrd loaded above 4G Yinghai Lu
2014-06-18 14:28 ` Matt Fleming
2014-07-09 18:26   ` Matt Fleming
2014-07-10 18:00     ` Yinghai Lu
2014-07-11  7:40       ` Matt Fleming
2014-07-15 15:10         ` Matt Fleming
2014-07-15 15:24           ` Michael Brown
2014-07-15 15:44           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-07-16 14:34             ` Matt Fleming
2014-07-16 14:45               ` Michael Brown

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