linux-kernel - Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

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Date:	Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:09:03 +0300
From:	Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
	<phcoder@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE..." <x86@...nel.org>,
	coreboot@...eboot.org
Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support


> I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but
> I guess it is pretty much unavoidable.
It's completely avoidable. The stub can copy this information to
standard framebuffer info structure. The only missing thing is to apply
patch by cjwatson or mjg59 (I'm not sure now who wrote it) for having an
ID for linear framebuffer which implies no specific hardware (it can be
any) or firmware (coreboot doesn't provide nay additional info or callback).

Please don't apply this patch it will break SeaBIOS booting with VGABIOS.


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