x86_64 EFI boot support
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v3 from the cover letter
- The VIDEO_TYPE_EFI is changed to 0x70 to group VIDEO_TYPE_<XX> better.
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/2 -v3] x86_64 EFI boot support
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 64bit and 32bit 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
v3:
- The VIDEO_TYPE_EFI is changed to 0x70 to group VIDEO_TYPE_<XX> better.
v2:
- The include files of efifb.c is cleaned up.
- Make CONFIG_FB_EFI not depend on CONFIG_EFI.
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Huang Ying