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

H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25T17:55:48Z

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