UEFI Plans / Shifts -- RFC

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:37:19AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:18 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:01:34AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > --------
> > > In message <CANCZdfoMZXJu2nRbAtLTPc1B4YWWbxsHQjX31zOo+8mDwMAQuA at mail.
> > gmail.com>
> > > , Warner Losh writes:
> > >
> > > >So here's my open questions:
> > > >(1) Do I need to parse boot.conf?
> > >
> > > I can't see how it would add any value on top of UEFI and reading it
> > > will just keeping old workarounds alive another decade for no good
> > reason.
> >
> > An obvious values is to have serial console earlier than loader.conf is
> > parsed.  At least on typical desktop motherboards which do not have
> > serial bios redirection, this is important.
> >
> 
> This won't work until AFTER we add ACPI to the boot loader.

Why ?