Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:12:19 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware/efi: export a routine to retrieve efi-variables by GUID |
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:07:18PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Ideally this would have been something that just showed up in an > option-rom bar on the device, but that did not happen so it is left > to software. For legacy-bios we scan adapter rom space looking for > our table, for efi it's comparatively cleaner we just grab this efi > variable identified by its own GUID.
In the worse case a late merged icsi driver just wouldn't support EFI-based boards out ot the box until 2.6.40. I don't think that is too much of an issue.
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