Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI document | Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:23:44 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:11:54 huang ying wrote: > On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > 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? > > Maybe What I said is not clear and correct. In fact, the elilo follows > the boot protocol defined in Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt,
No that's not the boot protocol. The boot protocol is in Documentation/i386/boot.txt
> just > not uses arch/(i386|x86_64)/boot/setup.S to collect the information, > but collects them by elilo itself. Information in > include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h is just a part of that in > Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt.
That's an internal interface that is not really suitable to use by other programs. e.g. it is not extensible (unlike the boot protocol)
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