From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754679AbaGOPpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:45:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56015 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751774AbaGOPpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:45:03 -0400 Message-ID: <53C54C62.8070403@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:44:34 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Fleming , Yinghai Lu CC: Matt Fleming , Ingo Molnar , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ard Biesheuvel , Leif Lindholm Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, eboot: Support initrd loaded above 4G References: <1402773821-15995-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20140618142819.GN24049@console-pimps.org> <20140709182651.GB15932@console-pimps.org> <20140711074029.GD5952@console-pimps.org> <20140715151025.GB32039@console-pimps.org> In-Reply-To: <20140715151025.GB32039@console-pimps.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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