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Message-Id: <1193971775.11724.30.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:49:35 +0800
From:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@....net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2 -v3] x86_64 EFI boot support

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 64bit and 32bit 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

v3:

- The VIDEO_TYPE_EFI is changed to 0x70 to group VIDEO_TYPE_<XX> better.

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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