Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752119Ab3FZNqp (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:46:45 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f177.google.com ([209.85.223.177]:42352 "EHLO mail-ie0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752013Ab3FZNqn (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:46:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130625182021.GA29955@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1372183863-11333-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> <1372183863-11333-4-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> <20130625182021.GA29955@srcf.ucam.org> From: Grant Likely Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:46:22 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3AXM1jbqbdlqy5oqjr9R9tsHszk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Leif Lindholm , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "patches@linaro.org" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , matt.fleming@intel.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1228 Lines: 29 On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. +1 > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/