On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:50:17AM -0700, Andrew Fish wrote: > AFAICT EFI pre-dates kexec merge into mainline by a number of years as > SetVirtualaddressMap() was part of EFI 1.0 (previous millennium)
Ok, fair enough. > The EFI to UEFI conversion was placing EFI 1.10 into an industry > standard, UEFI 2.0. UEFI is an industry standard so some one just > needs to make a proposal to update the spec. The edk2 open source > project is not part of the standards body so complaining on this > mailing list is not going to get anything changed. Right, I don't think that even changing the spec would help - it would actually make things worse because then we'd have to differentiate between UEFI versions: those which can do SetVirtualaddressMap() more than once and the older ones. So let's drop the discussion here - it is what it is, it is too late to change anything. At least we talked about it. :-) Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/