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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] pstore: EFI Support
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 07:27:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 06:09 AM, Am?rico Wang wrote:
> >I agree. It seems that we should enable this by default when APEI and
> >EFI are both enabled, this could be done by Kconfig.
> >
> 
> No, it can't.  That would be a compile-time option, but the
> selection needs to be at runtime.
> 
> However, it is still unclear that this is actually a win at all...

It's a win in that not all EFI platforms are ACPI. I don't think we're 
yet in a position to say which is preferable when we have both.

(Are we really arguing over which broken Intel firmware spec is less 
broken than the other?)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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