Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:39:13 -0600 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600 >> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: >> >>> I don't think there is a compelling case for us to use any efi >>> services at this time >> >> I would almost agree with this if it wasn't for the 1 call that OS >> installers need to tell EFI about bootloader stuff; I've cc'd Peter >> Jones since he'll know better what OS installers need; if they don't >> need it after all... >> > > Well, the original motivation for all of this was to enable implementation of a > EFI framebuffer (UGA/GOP). Now, you can say what you want about EFI (and I > definitely have my opinion on it), but that seems legitimate to me.
To be very clear. I think we need the EFI boot parameters but we certainly don't runtime services to implement an EFI framebuffer.
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