On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 02:43:07PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 11:29 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The efi_enabled variable has come to mean "Do we have EFI runtime
> > services available?". However, lack of EFI runtime services does not
> > mean that we should switch to using the VGA console. Provided that the
> > boot loader passed the dimensions of the EFI framebuffer there is no
> > reason we can't use efifb.
> >
> > There's also no reason to check the memory type of 0xa0000 - whether
> > or not that memory region is EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY is immaterial -
> > the EFI framebuffer device will still work, and checking the EFI
> > memory type of a memory region on a non-EFI machine is illogical.
> >
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> Ping? Anybody got an opinion on this one?
Provided "video=vga" still works to circumvent Alan's objection, I'm all
for it.
--
Peter
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