"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: >> >>> I don't think there is a compelling case for us to use any efi >>> services at this time >> >> I would almost agree with this if it wasn't for the 1 call that OS >> installers need to tell EFI about bootloader stuff; I've cc'd Peter >> Jones since he'll know better what OS installers need; if they don't >> need it after all... >> > > Well, the original motivation for all of this was to enable implementation of > a > EFI framebuffer (UGA/GOP). Now, you can say what you want about EFI (and I > definitely have my opinion on it), but that seems legitimate to me.
To be very clear. I think we need the EFI boot parameters but we certainly don't runtime services to implement an EFI framebuffer. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
