Re: [PATCH 01/16] Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code tocommon location

From: Mark Salter
Date: Tue Aug 13 2013 - 09:57:05 EST

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On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> No code changes made, just moving functions from x86 arch directory
> to common location.
> Code is shared using #include, similar to how decompression code
> is shared among architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Tested on arm64.

Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>

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