From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755863AbXJYSGM (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:06:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752657AbXJYSF4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:05:56 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:52259 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752738AbXJYSF4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:05:56 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner , "Huang, Ying" , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Chandramouli Narayanan , LKML , pjones@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support References: <1193295473.23935.202.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20071025095639.22f6cad0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4720CCBC.1050700@zytor.com> <4720D797.1020903@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:04:15 -0600 In-Reply-To: <4720D797.1020903@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:51:19 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>>> >>> 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. >> > > 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