Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:09:38 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86_64 EFI runtime service support |
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Huang, Ying wrote: > > One question: > > The boot_params.efi_info.efi_systab is defined as u32. But it should be > u64 on x86_64, because it comes from firmware and is not controlled by > bootloader. But, changing it from u32 to u64 will break current i386 EFI > support, should we change it and fix the i386 EFI bootloader? >
The other option is to have a union of a 32-bit and a 64-bit structure. I personally don't care, as long as it's consistent, but I think you need to deal with the people working on EFI currently about that...
-hpa
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