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Date:   Fri, 9 Oct 2020 09:10:13 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
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On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:05:25PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Sadly I just realised that the series is incomplete, we have RPi4 users that
> want to boot unsing ACPI, and this series would break things for them. I'll
> have a word with them to see what we can do for their use-case.

Stupid question:  why do these users insist on a totally unsuitable
interface?  And why would we as Linux developers care to support such
a aims?