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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:06:36 -0600
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pjones@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> writes:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> I don't think there is a compelling case for us to use any efi
>> services at this time
>
> I would almost agree with this if it wasn't for the 1 call that OS
> installers need to tell EFI about bootloader stuff; I've cc'd Peter
> Jones since he'll know better what OS installers need; if they don't
> need it after all...
Yes. I think that is usage of the variable service. Although
I don't know if that is actually needed.
Support for the variable service is not implemented in this
patchset.
Eric
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