Re: [patch] x86: Introduce BOOT_EFI and BOOT_CF9 into the reboot sequence loop

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sun Mar 02 2014 - 19:08:17 EST


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.

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