On 12/28/2012 03:39 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:32 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> No, that is explicitly the ordering that is excludable. > > Windows uses the UEFI time functions. The fact that they fail for us on > a bunch of systems is just another symptom of our general failure to > accurately mimic Windows when making runtime calls, and we should just > make sure that that gets fixed rather than layering more workarounds on > top. It's an embarrassment that we're still unable to deal with > platforms that work fine with another OS. > Are they using them in preference to ACPI? This seems a bit odd, since one can presume that the ACPI functions were added at Microsoft's request... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
