On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Zoran Stojsavljevic < [email protected]> wrote:
> Furthermore, let me tell you all that this is a mechanism to support ONLY > The Legacy BIOS (UEFI works ONLY with GOP, but this is another > dimension/discussion), and, to all of your knowledge (which I have no idea > how deep it is, I doubt), VBT table survives postmortem BIOS. By Linux, it > will be RELOCATED into much higher (over 1MB) 32bit protected mode memory > (addresses recalculated), and still use INT10H, using vBIOS (Option ROM, my > best guess) down there. > > no, the UEFI GOP driver needs the VBT to actually do anything. Look at any current PC UEFI firmware, or even x86 ChromeOS firmware, and you'll see they all use/contain a VBT still.
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