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Re: [PATCH 16/18] efi: create efi_exit_boot()
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: [PATCH 16/18] efi: create efi_exit_boot() |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:43:46 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:10:56PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 27.03.15 at 13:00, <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Additionally, efi_start()
> > is architecture independent and efi_multiboot2() is x86 only and it should
> > live in x86 files.
>
> Is that really the case? Looking at the grub2 sources I see support
> for other than x86...
Well... In theory multiboot protocol was designed as arch independet.
However, docs define more precisely stuff for i386 and MIPS (multiboot2
protocol only). As I know we do not care about MIPS. Additionally, so
called muliboot protocol for ARM is completely different thing then
multiboot protocols mentioned above (it is a mixture of EFI native
loader with DT). So, it looks that from our point of view efi_multiboot2()
is x86 only stuff (right now, I am not fortune teller, so, I am not
able to tell what happens in the future ;-))) ).
Daniel