Re: Can we get video card information in EFI environment ?

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Bean wrote:
> I think the vbe driver need to call bios, is there a way to do it directly ?

Yes, it uses BIOS to determine frame buffer address and setup video mode.

> EFI have uga draw protocol that can do bitblt, but they don't have a
> method to query low level information like frame buffer address and
> line length easily.

In EFI you should use this protocol to do drawing to screen. And you do 
not basicly need that low level information (in GRUB 2).