Hi Alex, On 31 August 2017 at 21:58, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/31/2017 02:51 PM, Simon Glass wrote: >> >> On 27 August 2017 at 06:51, Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Macro EFI_CALL was introduced to call an UEFI function. >> >> Should this be 'an EFI'. Or 'a UEFI'? > > > In a nutshell, EFI is the v1, proprietary, for pay, closed protocol while > UEFI is v2 and what edk2 implements, what you can get specs for, etc. But > since people started implementing things for v1 back in the day and they are > reasonable compatible, nobody calls UEFI UEFI, but just EFI :). > > It's a mess and I certainly didn't help it by calling everything EFI, but > it's what we're in and we should rather stay coherent IMHO. So EFI_CALL > really does call UEFI functions ;).
OK that's fine. Using EFI consistently seems like a good idea. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
