Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64

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From: Matthew Garrett

Subject: Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64

Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 2:53 pm

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:45:33PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

quoted text> EFI runtime calls have the nasty fact that they don't work in general even
> if EFI is present because you may have the wrong word size EFI running on
> your machine.  A 32bit EFI and a 64bit kernel or a 64bit EFI and a 32bit kernel.

You've already failed to boot in that case.

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EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Bjorn Helgaas, (Fri Jul 30, 1:58 pm)

Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Feng Tang, (Sun Aug 1, 7:35 pm)

Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Huang Ying, (Sun Aug 1, 7:42 pm)

Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Aug 3, 2:45 pm)

Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Aug 3, 2:53 pm)

Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Aug 3, 2:58 pm)

Re: EFI runtime-services on x86_64, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Aug 3, 3:15 pm)


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