Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759343AbXHUKmT (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:42:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758742AbXHUKmA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:42:00 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:51290 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756067AbXHUKl7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46CAC168.7090102@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:41:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: "Huang, Ying" , Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , Chandramouli Narayanan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Durbin Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support References: <1186990219.22431.37.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20070815154245.500c572c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1187250664.15063.0.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <46C45B22.5090701@suse.de> <1187313920.28497.1.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <46C5C8C4.4060407@zytor.com> <1187580031.27947.67.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <46C9CB89.7020603@zytor.com> <20070821113310.GF32640@bingen.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070821113310.GF32640@bingen.suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 517 Lines: 15 Andi Kleen wrote: >> - "struct boot_params" (the zeropage) is kept as a legacy interface. > > Legacy interface for what? Just for kexec utils which never should > have been using it anyways keeping backwards cruft around seems > misplac.ed Worse. LinuxBIOS. :( -hpa - 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/