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Message-ID: <4720CCBC.1050700@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:05:00 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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 wrote:
> 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...
> 

Well, the original motivation for all of this was to enable 
implementation of a EFI framebuffer (UGA/GOP).  Now, you can say what 
you want about EFI (and I definitely have my opinion on it), but that 
seems legitimate to me.

	-hpa
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