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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.

	-hpa
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