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

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Message-ID: <540A2FB4.6060605@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:48:36 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
	<phcoder@...il.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 09/05/2014 02:40 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 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.
> 

Want to make a patch?

	-hpa


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