Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758124AbXJYWdS (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:33:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754917AbXJYWdL (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:33:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45452 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754801AbXJYWdJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:33:09 -0400 Message-ID: <472118C7.3060909@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:29:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner , "Huang, Ying" , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Chandramouli Narayanan , LKML , pjones@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support References: <1193295473.23935.202.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20071025095639.22f6cad0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4720CCBC.1050700@zytor.com> <4720D797.1020903@zytor.com> <4720FE38.3050802@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 30 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" 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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the 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. > Then I fully agree with your assessment. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/