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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	"alan@linux.intel.com" <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len.Brown@intel.com,
	Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: Introduce BOOT_EFI and BOOT_CF9 into the reboot sequence loop
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 16:18:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5313CA6B.7020505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140303000759.GA25085@srcf.ucam.org>

On 03/02/2014 04:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:23:06AM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> 
>> Windows doesn't do because there is no 32/64 mixed windows and EFI on
>> the planet. Since the silicon is actually 64 bit, I failed to see a
>> reason to refuse the user install 64bit linux on it. So we encountered a
>> case windows didn't.
> 
> And we'll call the 32 bit EFI call, so what's the problem?
> 
>> So, you didn't mention BOOT_BIOS, if you don't want to add BOOT_BIOS,
>> and you also don't like DMI entires, how do you want to deal with the
>> machines requiring BOOT_BIOS to reboot their machine?
> 
> I was planning on ignoring them.
> 

I suspect we'll never get away from having a DMI table, if nothing else
because we can't test enough, but the current situation where it seems
like we need to add every since Dell box to the DMI table is clearly broken.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-03  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-28  4:11 [patch] x86: Introduce BOOT_EFI and BOOT_CF9 into the reboot sequence loop Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28  4:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-28  5:22   ` Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28  5:56     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-28  6:07       ` Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28  6:12         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-28  6:20           ` Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28  6:23             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-28  6:39               ` Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28  6:44                 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-28  6:54                   ` Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28 17:47                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-28 22:11                       ` Li, Aubrey
2014-02-28 22:16                         ` Adam Williamson
2014-03-01 17:10                         ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-01 17:22                           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-01 17:31                             ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-01 18:19                               ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-01 19:01                                 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-02  0:15                                   ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-01 20:06                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-01 20:21                               ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-01 20:26                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-02  0:26                                   ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02  0:33                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-02  1:47                                       ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02  2:07                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-02  2:20                                           ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02  2:23                                           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-02  2:35                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-02 10:39                                               ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02 16:52                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-02 22:13                                                   ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02 22:26                                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-02 22:45                                                       ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02 23:11                                                         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-02 23:23                                                           ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-03  0:07                                                             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-03  0:18                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-03-03  1:36                                                                 ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-03  1:47                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-03  1:49                                                                     ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-03 22:11                                                                       ` Li, Aubrey
2014-03-02 23:57                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-05 23:39                                                 ` [tip:x86/reboot] x86, reboot: Add EFI and CF9 reboot methods into the default list tip-bot for Li, Aubrey
2014-03-05 23:45                                                 ` [tip:x86/reboot] x86, reboot: Only use CF9_COND automatically, not CF9 tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin

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