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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:32:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193218342.23935.147.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> (raw)

This patch set has been dropped because the 32-bit boot protocol is
not ready. Now, the 32-bit boot protocol has been merged, so I resend
this patch set.

Can this patch set and 32-bit boot protocol document patch catch up
with the merge window of 2.6.24?


Following sets of patches add EFI/UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface) boot support to x86_64 architecture.

The patches have been tested against 2.6.24-rc1 kernel on Intel
platforms with EFI1.10 and UEFI2.0 firmware. With this set of patches
applied, the 64 bit and 32 bit x86 kernel can be booted on x86_64
machine with UEFI64 firmware.

Because the EFI memory map is converted to E820 map in bootloader, now
the only needed code for booting Linux kernel on x86_64 UEFI platform
is the framebuffer driver.

UEFI specification can be found here: http://www.uefi.org

For booting the UEFI x86_64 enabled kernel, the machine with EFI/UEFI
firmware and the support of bootloader is required. Detailed usage
guide can be found in Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt, which is added in
the patch: EFI boot document


v2:

- The include files of efifb.c is cleaned up.
- Make CONFIG_FB_EFI not depend on CONFIG_EFI.


Best Regards,
Huang Ying

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24  9:32 Huang, Ying [this message]
2007-10-31  1:21 ` [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support Huang, Ying
2007-10-31 19:59   ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-31 20:09     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-02  1:02       ` Huang, Ying
2007-11-02  1:25         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-02  1:01     ` Huang, Ying

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