Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756651AbXJYRIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:08:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750765AbXJYRH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:07:59 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:36849 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752177AbXJYRH6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:07:58 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Arjan van de Ven 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 References: <1193295473.23935.202.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20071025095639.22f6cad0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:06:36 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20071025095639.22f6cad0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:56:39 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 25 Arjan van de Ven writes: > 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... Yes. I think that is usage of the variable service. Although I don't know if that is actually needed. Support for the variable service is not implemented in this patchset. Eric - 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/