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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:12:19 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>, "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, "Danecki, Jacek" <jacek.danecki@...el.com>, "Ciechanowski, Ed" <ed.ciechanowski@...el.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "dmilburn@...hat.com" <dmilburn@...hat.com>, "Nadolski, Edmund" <edmund.nadolski@...el.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/efi: export a routine to retrieve efi-variables by GUID On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:07:18PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Ideally this would have been something that just showed up in an > option-rom bar on the device, but that did not happen so it is left > to software. For legacy-bios we scan adapter rom space looking for > our table, for efi it's comparatively cleaner we just grab this efi > variable identified by its own GUID. In the worse case a late merged icsi driver just wouldn't support EFI-based boards out ot the box until 2.6.40. I don't think that is too much of an issue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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