linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] efi earlyprintk fix

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Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:13:47 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
To:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:	matt.fleming@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi earlyprintk fix

On Sat, 09 Nov, at 11:44:29AM, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi, Matt
> 
> Confirmed, your patch work ok for the pr_cont issue.
 
Excellent, thanks for testing.

> Actually I mixed two problems in my report, one is there's always one blank line
> at the bottom of screen, the other is the pr_cont issue. For the second problem
> change >= to > looks better. For the previous problem still need to move the
> hunk below to the beginning point of early_efi_write function. It just works for me
> but I'm not sure why this is not necessary for other machines. 
> 
> +		if (efi_y + font->height > si->lfb_height) {
> +			u32 i;
> +
> +			efi_y -= font->height;
> +			early_efi_scroll_up();
> +
> +			for (i = 0; i < font->height; i++)
> +				early_efi_clear_scanline(efi_y + i);
> +		}

Dave, unfortunately you're going to need to debug this further because
it doesn't make any sense that your patch is needed, unless there's a
bug in the existing code.

You may also want to rule out that your boot_delay patches are not
inserting delays after printing pr_fmt().

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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