linux-kernel - Re: Proposal: EFI boot stub configuration file

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:36:16 -0400
From:	Shea Levy <shea@...alevy.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, matt.fleming@...el.com
Subject: Re: Proposal: EFI boot stub configuration file

On 3/16/12 5:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> A file in UCS-2 seems messed up. 

Yeah, it seemed like a good way to let the code be dumb but upon 
reflection it'd just be a confusing inefficiency.

> Otherwise, seems like a reasonable idea, with a major caveat... since 
> the whole point of this is to do something when it isn't possible to 
> set NVRAM variables, it would make most sense to me if the 
> configuration file could be founin a specific location relative to the 
> kernel image itself.

OK. I'll try both approaches to see if the code complexity is greatly 
increased in the relative path case.

Cheers,
Shea
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