On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 02:04 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 00:13 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > When booting under OVMF we have precisely one GOP device, and it > > implements the ConOut protocol. > > > > We break out of the loop when we look at it... and then promptly abort > > because 'first_gop' never gets set. > > Hmmm. I've just fixed OVMF so that when qemu is invoked with the > '-kernel' argument, it uses the EFI handover protocol. And now graphics > is broken on kernels *without* this patch. I can't even initialise the > graphics info in OVMF (as it does for non-EFI handover) because the > kernel helpfully zeroes it all out before failing to set it up > correctly. > > Does it make sense to bump the boot protocol to 2.12 to indicate that > this bug is fixed, and then let things like OVMF use the EFI handover > protocol only for boot protocol >= 2.12? Or is there a better way...? Bumping the boot protocol seems like a sensible idea. Peter, any objection to that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
