"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>>> >>> Ying claimed that GOP requires EFI runtime services. Is that not true? >> >> None of the EFI framebuffer patches that I saw used EFI runtime services. >> > > Ying, could you please clarify this situation? > > (Eric: do note that there are two EFI framebuffer standard, UGA and > GOP. Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the > moment.)
Peter please look back in your email archives to yesterday and see Ying's patch: [PATCH 1/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI frame buffer driver All of the data the GOP needs is acquired through the a query made by the bootloader and passed through screen info. 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/
