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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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?

	-hpa
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