Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965223Ab3HIPc2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:32:28 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:45240 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964963Ab3HIPc1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:32:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1376062345.2087.16.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Subject: Re: RFC: default CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y From: James Bottomley To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Matt Fleming Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:32:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <52050985.9070107@zytor.com> References: <52050985.9070107@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I would like to change the defaults for CONFIG_EFI and CONFIG_EFI_STUB > to y. There is little reason to omit this since EFI now is a > significant percentage of all systems. You didn't actually attach the patch, but I presume this is for 64 bit compiles on x86 only? We still have significant problems getting 64 bit EFI to interact with 32 bit kernels, so I don't believe we should enable CONFIG_EFI globally for all of x86. James -- 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/