New subject: boy is EFI a kludge!

29 Aug 2001


      ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
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Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
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OK, looking around, it's about what I expected.
However one thing we might be able to use: EFI is called from something
called SAL. SAL is real low-level stuff you will never see the source to
that does all the horrible stuff that Intel won't tell us how to do.
You don't need EFI. You need something to link to SAL that replaces EFI. I
think that's our hook.
So if intel won't cooperate we need to plan on reverse engineering SAL.  Unless
IA64 dies soon it is probably a worthwhile investment.
Ron unless you have something better I'd suggest using one of the
upcoming dual Itanium/P4 chipsets as a starting point.  Then you could
be certain the chipset worked before on x86 before trying to reverse 
engineer the cpu initialization for the Itanium...
That isn't a very aggressive plan but unless we start moving in a
hurry it is probably a very workable one.
Eric
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