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Message-ID: <1337804473.3807.1.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:21:13 +0100 From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Expand EFI GOP handle search On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 14:08 -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Some UEFI implementations provide multiple GOP handles, with one acting > as a splitter device to handle the case of multiple outputs being present. > The downside of this approach is that the console splitter device may > report an inaccurate stride value. We currently get around this by looking > for a device that implements the PCI IO protocol. However, this fails on > some devices - the GOP may be attached to the display device rather than > the GPU. We can handle that scenario by looking for a handle with an EDID > protocol attached to it. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com> > --- > arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- > include/linux/efi.h | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) Seems fair enough. Thanks Matthew. Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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