linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] efi/gop: Refactoring + mode-setting feature

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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:02:42 -0400
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] efi/gop: Refactoring + mode-setting feature

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 15:28, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> This series is against tip:efi/core.
>
> Patches 1-9 are small cleanups and refactoring of the code in
> libstub/gop.c.
>
> The rest of the patches add the ability to use a command-line option to
> switch the gop's display mode.
>
> The options supported are:
> video=efifb:mode=n
>         Choose a specific mode number
> video=efifb:<xres>x<yres>[-(rgb|bgr|<bpp>)]
>         Specify mode by resolution and optionally color depth
> video=efifb:auto
>         Let the EFI stub choose the highest resolution mode available.
>
> The mode-setting additions increase code size of gop.o by about 3k on
> x86-64 with EFI_MIXED enabled.
>
> Arvind Sankar (14):
>   efi/gop: Remove redundant current_fb_base
>   efi/gop: Move check for framebuffer before con_out
>   efi/gop: Get mode information outside the loop
>   efi/gop: Factor out locating the gop into a function
>   efi/gop: Slightly re-arrange logic of find_gop
>   efi/gop: Move variable declarations into loop block
>   efi/gop: Use helper macros for populating lfb_base
>   efi/gop: Use helper macros for find_bits
>   efi/gop: Remove unreachable code from setup_pixel_info
>   efi/gop: Add prototypes for query_mode and set_mode
>   efi/gop: Allow specifying mode number on command line
>   efi/gop: Allow specifying mode by <xres>x<yres>
>   efi/gop: Allow specifying depth as well as resolution
>   efi/gop: Allow automatically choosing the best mode
>

Thanks for this! I like it a lot.

Adding Hans to cc as he has been working on seamless fb handover.

I will review this somewhere next week.

>  Documentation/fb/efifb.rst                    |  33 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h                    |   4 +
>  .../firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c    |   3 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h        |   8 +-
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/gop.c            | 489 ++++++++++++++----
>  5 files changed, 428 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.24.1
>