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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:05:19 +0800
From: "huang ying" <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
To: "Russ Anderson" <rja@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: Add UV bios call infrastructure v2
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Hi, Russ,

> After thinking about this, if a new runtime call was added to
> efi_runtime_services_t, then the existing efi_call_virt<n> could be
> used.  This would remove the need to create uv_systab.  I'll post
> a patch shortly.

Please don't touch efi_runtime_services_t, if you do not go through
UEFI standard procedure. It can not be extended in a non-standard way.
Thinking about someone else adds another new field to
efi_runtime_services_t in a conflict way.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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