[PATCH 3/4] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Jun 25 14:20:21 EDT 2013
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:11:02PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> This patch implements basic support for UEFI runtime services in the
> ARM architecture - a requirement for using efibootmgr to read and update
> the system boot configuration.
>
> It also locates any presented SMBIOS configuration table and stores it
> for potential later use by DMI.
This appears to duplicate code that's already duplicated between x86 and
ia64. We made a mistake there originally - let's not do it again. Having
this code in three places is inevitably going to lead to skew and missed
bugfixes.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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