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Message-Id: <1193218342.23935.147.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:32:22 +0800
From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@....net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support
This patch set has been dropped because the 32-bit boot protocol is
not ready. Now, the 32-bit boot protocol has been merged, so I resend
this patch set.
Can this patch set and 32-bit boot protocol document patch catch up
with the merge window of 2.6.24?
Following sets of patches add EFI/UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface) boot support to x86_64 architecture.
The patches have been tested against 2.6.24-rc1 kernel on Intel
platforms with EFI1.10 and UEFI2.0 firmware. With this set of patches
applied, the 64 bit and 32 bit x86 kernel can be booted on x86_64
machine with UEFI64 firmware.
Because the EFI memory map is converted to E820 map in bootloader, now
the only needed code for booting Linux kernel on x86_64 UEFI platform
is the framebuffer driver.
UEFI specification can be found here: http://www.uefi.org
For booting the UEFI x86_64 enabled kernel, the machine with EFI/UEFI
firmware and the support of bootloader is required. Detailed usage
guide can be found in Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt, which is added in
the patch: EFI boot document
v2:
- The include files of efifb.c is cleaned up.
- Make CONFIG_FB_EFI not depend on CONFIG_EFI.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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