Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support

Huang, Ying
2007-10-26T02:16:16Z

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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at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