[PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Thu Apr 10 05:54:02 PDT 2014


On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 15:20 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >
> > +config EFI
> > +       bool "UEFI firmware support"
> > +       depends on OF
> 
> I note we're not depending on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN here, and it looks like
> the implementation is not endian-clean (I've pointed out a few issues
> below).
> 
> We need to fix that up for CPU_BIG_ENDIAN. For the moment we could
> depend on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN which would at least to make it clear we don't
> support EFI && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN yet. The commit message should be updated
> to mention that.
> 

Yes, the !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN was there at one point but got lost along
the way. It may be best to put it back for now, but I'll take a
stab at getting the stub part sorted out based on your comments.
Full runtime services will be trickier and need a followup patch in
the future after the initial patch series goes in.





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