Eric W. Biederman wrote:
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> 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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the moment.)Peter please look back in your email archives to yesterday and see Ying's patch: [PATCH 1/2 -v2 resend]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.
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