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Message-ID: <540A2DD1.1040002@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:40:33 +0300
From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
<phcoder@...il.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, ron minnich <rminnich@...il.com>
CC: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE..." <x86@...nel.org>,
coreboot <coreboot@...eboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support
On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote:
>>> Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds
>>> interesting.
>>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190
>>
>
> I believe *most* of this patch has already gotten merged as we now use
> simplefb on x86 as well. So all we need is probably the ID.
>
Yes, efifb has the same semantics. We just need some ID with clear
documentation saying sth like "implies framebuffer without anything
else" so that noone will get an idea to plug e.g. vga hooks into it.
> -hpa
>
>
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