linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support

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Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:58:56 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Chandramouli Narayanan" <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Aaron Durbin" <adurbin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support

On 8/21/07, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:41:44AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >> - "struct boot_params" (the zeropage) is kept as a legacy interface.
> > >
> > > Legacy interface for what?  Just for kexec utils which never should
> > > have been using it anyways keeping backwards cruft around seems
> > > misplac.ed
> >
> > Worse.  LinuxBIOS.  :(
>
> Sigh. Perhaps it should be renamed AntiLinuxBios: it seems to be actively adverse.

current LinuxBIOS's path: the elfboot in LinuxBIOS will prepare the
e820 table, and jump to startup_32 in kernel. is that not good and
simple? kernel is not supposed to switch back and forth to get such
memmap...

Why not using ACPI mean AntiLinux?

YH
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