Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763502AbXJZCQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:16:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763532AbXJZCPr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:15:47 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:57240 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763525AbXJZCPp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:15:45 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,330,1188802800"; d="scan'208";a="358735477" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support From: "Huang, Ying" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Chandramouli Narayanan , LKML , pjones@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <4720FE38.3050802@zytor.com> 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:14:33 +0800 Message-Id: <1193364873.23935.248.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Oct 2007 02:11:42.0908 (UTC) FILETIME=[8D498FC0:01C81775] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 24 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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at 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 - 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/