On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:36 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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   Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at 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.)

EFI framebuffer doesn't depend on EFI runtime service. It only depends
on kernel boot parameters (screen_info).

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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