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SubjectRe: [patch] x86: Introduce BOOT_EFI and BOOT_CF9 into the reboot sequence loop
On 2014/3/3 7:11, Matthew Garrett wrote:

>> So, if you are still suggesting we add EFI only, please let me know your
>> plan about adding dmidecode table and if it's acceptable to add new
>> tables, I have three waiting: ASUS-T100, Dell Venue 8 Pro, and Dell
>> Venue 11 Pro.
>
> I don't think it's acceptable to add DMI entries to the reboot table. I
> think you should add the EFI call (since we expect that to work now),
> and I have no objection to adding cf9 to the end of the list if we have
> standard PCI io ports (Windows doesn't do it, but we can hardly make
> things worse).
>
Windows doesn't do because there is no 32/64 mixed windows and EFI on
the planet. Since the silicon is actually 64 bit, I failed to see a
reason to refuse the user install 64bit linux on it. So we encountered a
case windows didn't.

So, you didn't mention BOOT_BIOS, if you don't want to add BOOT_BIOS,
and you also don't like DMI entires, how do you want to deal with the
machines requiring BOOT_BIOS to reboot their machine?

Thanks,
-Aubrey


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