Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936156AbXHHQY1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:24:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934452AbXHHQXu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:23:50 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60577 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936009AbXHHQXt (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:23:49 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: "huang ying" Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:23:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "Huang, Ying" , "Eric W. Biederman" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Yinghai Lu" , "Randy Dunlap" , "Chandramouli Narayanan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <9D7649D18729DE4BB2BD7B494F7FEDC246DC2B@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <200708081609.33098.ak@suse.de> <851fc09e0708080811l1e17255ctef617d9137a8c045@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <851fc09e0708080811l1e17255ctef617d9137a8c045@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708081823.44324.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 28 On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:11:54 huang ying wrote: > On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 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? > > Maybe What I said is not clear and correct. In fact, the elilo follows > the boot protocol defined in Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt, No that's not the boot protocol. The boot protocol is in Documentation/i386/boot.txt > just > not uses arch/(i386|x86_64)/boot/setup.S to collect the information, > but collects them by elilo itself. Information in > include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h is just a part of that in > Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt. That's an internal interface that is not really suitable to use by other programs. e.g. it is not extensible (unlike the boot protocol) -Andi - 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/