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 15:29:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <472118C7.3060909@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lk9q4z17.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 22:33 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
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 [this message]
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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