"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Huang, Ying wrote: >> >> One question: >> >> The boot_params.efi_info.efi_systab is defined as u32. But it should be >> u64 on x86_64, because it comes from firmware and is not controlled by >> bootloader. But, changing it from u32 to u64 will break current i386 EFI >> support, should we change it and fix the i386 EFI bootloader? >> > > The other option is to have a union of a 32-bit and a 64-bit structure. > I personally don't care, as long as it's consistent, but I think you > need to deal with the people working on EFI currently about that...
It sounds like the 64bit EFI is currently binary incompatible with the 32bit EFI. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/