On Oct 17, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

>  have no idea why the UEFI-booted kernel tries to initialize the
> display with Int10h, since that is a (VGA) BIOS interrupt. I can
> understand why it works with SeaBIOS, but when booted on an UEFI
> platform, the kernel should either use the EUFI GOP (although I presume
> it'd occur beyond ExitBootServices()), or load its own video driver and
> massage the hardware directly. Shouldn't it?

GOP is only valid prior to ExitBootServices(). After ExitBootServices() the 
frame buffer info exposed by GOP (prior to ExitBootServices()) is used by the 
OS until it loads a real driver.

Thanks,

Andrew

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