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Message-ID: <m1lk9q4z17.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:20 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pjones@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the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
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