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From: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...>
To: <akpm@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Andi Kleen <ak@...>, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...>, Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@...>
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 5:32 am

This patch set has been dropped because the 32-bit boot protocol is
not ready. Now, the 32-bit boot protocol has been merged, so I resend
this patch set.

Can this patch set and 32-bit boot protocol document patch catch up
with the merge window of 2.6.24?


Following sets of patches add EFI/UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface) boot support to x86_64 architecture.

The patches have been tested against 2.6.24-rc1 kernel on Intel
platforms with EFI1.10 and UEFI2.0 firmware. With this set of patches
applied, the 64 bit and 32 bit x86 kernel can be booted on x86_64
machine with UEFI64 firmware.

Because the EFI memory map is converted to E820 map in bootloader, now
the only needed code for booting Linux kernel on x86_64 UEFI platform
is the framebuffer driver.

UEFI specification can be found here: http://www.uefi.org

For booting the UEFI x86_64 enabled kernel, the machine with EFI/UEFI
firmware and the support of bootloader is required. Detailed usage
guide can be found in Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt, which is added in
the patch: EFI boot document


v2:

- The include files of efifb.c is cleaned up.
- Make CONFIG_FB_EFI not depend on CONFIG_EFI.


Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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[PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, Huang, Ying, (Wed Oct 24, 5:32 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, Huang, Ying, (Tue Oct 30, 9:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, Andrew Morton, (Wed Oct 31, 3:59 pm)
RE: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, Huang, Ying, (Thu Nov 1, 9:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Oct 31, 4:09 pm)
RE: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, Huang, Ying, (Thu Nov 1, 9:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2 -v2 resend] x86_64 EFI boot support, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Nov 1, 9:25 pm)