On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:35 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 22:26, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 at 22:36, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > On snapdragon aarch64 laptops, a 'UEFIDisplayInfo' variable is provided > > > to communicate some information about the display. Crutially it has the > > > panel-id, so the appropriate panel driver can be selected. Read this > > > out and stash in /chosen/panel-id so that display driver can use it to > > > pick the appropriate panel. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Hi Rob, > > > > I understand why you are doing this, but this *really* belongs elsewhere. > > > > So we are dealing with a platform that violates the UEFI spec, since > > it does not bother to implement variable services at runtime (because > > MS let the vendor get away with this). > > > > To clarify, the above remark applies to populating the DT from the OS > rather than from the firmware. yeah, it isn't pretty, but there *are* some other similar cases where efi-stub is populating DT.. (like update_fdt_memmap() and kaslr-seed).. it would be kinda nice to have an early-quirks mechanism where this could fit, but I thought that might be equally unpopular ;-) > > > First of all, to pass data between the EFI stub and the OS proper, we > > should use a configuration table rather than a DT property, since the > > former is ACPI/DT agnostic. Also, I'd like the consumer of the data to > > actually interpret it, i.e., just dump the whole opaque thing into a > > config table in the stub, and do the parsing in the OS proper. > > > > However, I am not thrilled at adding code to the stub that > > unconditionally looks for some variable with some magic name on all > > ARM/arm64 EFI systems, so this will need to live under a Kconfig > > option that depends on ARM64 (and does not default to y) I defn can add this under kconfig.. is it ok if that option is select'd by ARCH_QCOM? (Just trying to minimize the things that can go wrong and the "I get a blank screen at boot" bug reports I get ;-)) > ... but saving variables at boot time for consumption at runtime is > something that we will likely see more of in the future. I think this will be nice, but it also doesn't address the need for a quirk to get this into /chosen.. I guess we *could* use a shim or something that runs before the kernel to do this. But that just seems like a logistical/support nightmare. There is one kernel, and there are N distro's, so debugging a users "I don't get a screen at boot" problem because their distro missed some shim patch really just doesn't seem like a headache I want to have. BR, -R
