Re: UEFI Plugfest 2013 -- New Orleans

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:22:45AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 13:55 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:25:35AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > 
> > > Every deviation from the spec (or common sense), however minor, should
> > > show up as a clear failure. Even the ones we *have* been able to work
> > > around, because we still want them *fixed*.
> > 
> > Why? It's not like we can ever stop carrying that code.
> 
> The reason for doing it is that we have a buildable reference
> implementation that's fully spec compliant we can then make the basis of
> a test suite for UEFI.

And why's that a benefit? Nobody's ever going to be able to ship an OS 
that doesn't implement these workarounds - they're de-facto part of the 
spec. It'd make more sense to document them officially.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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