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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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