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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:20:21 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:11:02PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> This patch implements basic support for UEFI runtime services in the
> ARM architecture - a requirement for using efibootmgr to read and update
> the system boot configuration.
> 
> It also locates any presented SMBIOS configuration table and stores it
> for potential later use by DMI.

This appears to duplicate code that's already duplicated between x86 and 
ia64. We made a mistake there originally - let's not do it again. Having 
this code in three places is inevitably going to lead to skew and missed 
bugfixes.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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