On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 07:16 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:30:19 +0800
> "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Following sets of patches add EFI/UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware
> > Interface) runtime services support to x86_64 architecture.
>
> OK, we have a major trainwreck when these patches meet Peter's
> get-newsetup.patch.
>
> I'm halfway into fixing it when I see this. You have:
>
> #define SYS_DESC_TABLE (*(struct sys_desc_table_struct*)(PARAM+0xa0))
> +#define EFI_LOADER_SIG ((unsigned char *)(PARAM+0x1c0))
> +#define EFI_MEMDESC_SIZE (*((unsigned int *) (PARAM+0x1c4)))
> +#define EFI_MEMDESC_VERSION (*((unsigned int *) (PARAM+0x1c8)))
> +#define EFI_MEMMAP_SIZE (*((unsigned int *) (PARAM+0x1cc)))
> +#define EFI_MEMMAP (*((unsigned long *)(PARAM+0x1d0)))
> +#define EFI_SYSTAB (*((unsigned long *)(PARAM+0x1d8)))
> #define MOUNT_ROOT_RDONLY (*(unsigned short *) (PARAM+0x1F2))
>
> But Peter's include/asm-i386/bootparam.h has:
>
> struct efi_info {
> u32 _pad1;
> u32 efi_systab;
> u32 efi_memdesc_size;
> u32 efi_memdesc_version;
> u32 efi_memmap;
> u32 efi_memmap_size;
> u32 _pad2[2];
> };
>
> /* The so-called "zeropage" */
> struct boot_params {
> struct screen_info screen_info; /* 0x000 */
> struct apm_bios_info apm_bios_info; /* 0x040 */
> u8 _pad2[12]; /* 0x054 */
> struct ist_info ist_info; /* 0x060 */
> u8 _pad3[16]; /* 0x070 */
> u8 hd0_info[16]; /* obsolete! */ /* 0x080 */
> u8 hd1_info[16]; /* obsolete! */ /* 0x090 */
> struct sys_desc_table sys_desc_table; /* 0x0a0 */
> u8 _pad4[144]; /* 0x0b0 */
> struct edid_info edid_info; /* 0x140 */
> struct efi_info efi_info; /* 0x1c0 */
> u32 alt_mem_k; /* 0x1e0 */
>
> So for example, Peter has memdesc_size at 0x1c8 and you have it at
> 0x1c4.
>
> I'll give up and will drop the EFI patches. I'd suggest that you work
> with
> Peter on getting these patches integrated.
>
OK, I will work with Peter to solve the problem.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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