Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:04:15 -0600 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>>> >>> 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. >> > > 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.
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