[PATCH 3/4] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Jun 26 09:46:22 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 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.

+1

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