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

[Eric W. Biederman]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:55:44 -0600
>> ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (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.

Eric
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