From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:09:32 +0200
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> Instead, elilo collects the needed information
> defined in include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h itself, 

That's nasty. I must have missed when we declared this a public ABI.
It's not really designed to be one. Was there public discussion on this?

I expect we'll have some grief from this in the future.

If it's really done this way we should at least add a version
number and a boot loader ID like the standard boot protocol
so that bugs later can be worked around. Also some Documentation
would be good. And comments. But discussion first.

-Andi

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