"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:Ying, could you please clarify this situation?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.
(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 Apparently UGA is obsolete and we have always been at war with GOP at the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.