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Making distributions Just Work on ARM servers

Making distributions Just Work on ARM servers

Posted Mar 9, 2017 18:03 UTC (Thu) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
In reply to: Making distributions Just Work on ARM servers by xav
Parent article: Making distributions Just Work on ARM servers

EBC is an UEFI feature, nothing to do with kernel drivers or the kernel (lack of) driver ABI.

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Making distributions Just Work on ARM servers

Posted Mar 11, 2017 9:59 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Quite. The early boot process burned into firmware already *has* a stable API: if it didn't, EFI binaries wouldn't work.

This API is less like the kernel driver API and much more like the kernel/userspace syscalls API. Third parties use it, and are meant to (without getting sniffy looks like people who maintain out-of-tree kernel drivers). It has to be stable.


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