Hej, On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:29:58PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> The server guys really want UEFI for their boot protocols, > >> installation managers, etc, etc. That's fine, let them do that, but > >> that doesn't mean we need to bring the same APIs all the way into the > >> kernel. > > > > There is zero dependency on ACPI in the UEFI support code, or indeed in > > UEFI itself. Both runtime services support and stub loader have been > > designed hardware-description agnostic. > > > > Are you saying that we should not support the kernel interfaces to UEFI > > on ARM*, or are you simply mentioning it in passing because it is the > > bit responsible for populating the pointer to the ACPI tables? > > Good question. UEFI and ACPI usually gets grouped together when they > really are separate (even though ACPI _without_ UEFI is highly > unlikely). > > So, to clarify: What I meant with the above is that UEFI as a > bootloader is fine as far as I am concerned. I'm also in general ok > with the introduction of efivars that you're doing, etc. Thank you for this clarification. / Leif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html