Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 10:09:53 EST


> Instead, elilo collects the needed information
> defined in include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h itself,

That's nasty. I must have missed when we declared this a public ABI.
It's not really designed to be one. Was there public discussion on this?

I expect we'll have some grief from this in the future.

If it's really done this way we should at least add a version
number and a boot loader ID like the standard boot protocol
so that bugs later can be worked around. Also some Documentation
would be good. And comments. But discussion first.

-Andi

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