> Especially for accessing the real time clock that has a well > defined hardware interface going through efi an additional > software emulation layer looks like asking for trouble.
I agree it's pointless for the hardware clock, but EFI also offers services to write some data to the CMOS RAM which could be very useful to save oops data over reboot. I don't think this can be done safely otherwise without BIOS cooperation. -Andi - 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/
