RE: [CFT][PATCH] 2.6.4-rc1 remove x86 boot page tables

[Tolentino, Matthew E]

> 
> Stupid question.  What is efi doing in arch/i386 anyway?

Not a stupid question at all. Despite the recent announcement, 
efi is still working its way into x86 systems.  I think that 
decision lies with OEMs.  I believe some are already out there...  

> All of the to be production efi x86 systems I have heard of support
> x86-64.  So shouldn't it be 64bit calls that we need to worry about?

Not necessarily, although some systems (such as servers) will 
indeed have support for x86-64.  I've just started looking at what 
support needs to added for x86-64, in terms of efi, since I 
learned about the announcement via cnet as well...  ;-(

matt 

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