Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:05:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600 > ebiederm@xmission.com (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.
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