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

Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25T22:22:18Z

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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the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

Eric