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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	pjones@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:51:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4720D797.1020903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1y7dr3xha.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

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?

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25  6:57 [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support Huang, Ying
2007-10-25 16:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-25 16:28   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 16:55   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 16:56     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-25 17:05       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 17:39         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 17:51           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-10-25 18:04             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 20:36               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 22:20                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 22:29                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-26  2:31                     ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26  2:14                 ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-25 17:06       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26  1:28         ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-25 17:06     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-25 17:08       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 17:30         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26  2:12           ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26  1:03   ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26  8:48     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-26  9:30       ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26 10:20         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-26 11:37       ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-26 11:31     ` Alan Cox
2007-10-26 17:00       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-29  1:05       ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26  3:36   ` Huang, Ying
2007-10-26  4:11     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 17:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-26  1:17   ` Huang, Ying

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