Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:24:46 -0500 | | From | Russ Anderson <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: UV runtime bios calls |
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:09:07AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Hi, Russ,
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:06 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > This patch uses sal_systab. sal_systab is used on ia64, but was
> > not used on x86. An alternative would be to create a new
> > EFI entry type (uv_systab), though that would require adding
> > to struct efi.
>
> I don't think it is a good idea to use sal_systab, if it is not a real
> sal_systab. It's better to add new field such as uv_systab to struct
> efi, which is not defined by UEFI standard, so can be changed.
OK. My first development version took that approach, so
it I just have to put that code back in.
Thanks,
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Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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