Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754846AbXJYRAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750803AbXJYRAn (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41149 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752240AbXJYRAm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:00:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:56:39 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "Huang, Ying" , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Chandramouli Narayanan , LKML , pjones@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support Message-ID: <20071025095639.22f6cad0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1193295473.23935.202.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 20 On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > I don't think there is a compelling case for us to use any efi > services at this time I would almost agree with this if it wasn't for the 1 call that OS installers need to tell EFI about bootloader stuff; I've cc'd Peter Jones since he'll know better what OS installers need; if they don't need it after all... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org - 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/