Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basicruntime service support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 16:41:18 EST


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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the moment.)

-hpa
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