On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 05:32:33PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is a patch-set to make sure that the efifb contains the boot > graphics from the ACPI BGRT extension when the kernel is configured > to use the (new) deferred fbcon console takeover support. > > Let me explain why this is desirable (same reason as for the deferred > fbcon console takeover support itself): > > Various (desktop oriented) Linux distributions have spend a lot of time > to not show way too technial boot messages to end users during bootup. > What we would really like for the boot experience is something like > MacOS X / Windows 10 do. The (EFI) firmware boots up a logo and we > leave that in place until the login-manager (e.g. gdm) starts and then > the login-manager takes over the framebuffer including the current logo > contents and fades that into the login screen. > > The deferred fbcon console takeover (combined with shim and grub) > patches makes the desired boot experience possible, but this assumes > that the firmware starts shim with the framebuffer containing the > boot graphics. This is not always the case, this patch ensures that the > boot graphics are in place. > > Since the bgrt.status field is not exactly reliable, this commit simply > always copies over the bootgraphics. If they are already there this > effectively is a no-op. > > The first patch in this series makes a trivial change to > drivers/firmware/efi/efi-bgrt.c, dropping __initdata from bgrt_image_size. > > Ard, since the second patch depends on the first and the change is > really trivial, can we please have your ack for merging the efi-bgrt.c > change through the fbdev tree? Random side-comment ... plans to roll out the same for drm drivers? With the client infrastructure Noralf is working on doing that should be fairly straight-forward. Interim step would be to add it to the shared fbdev emulation layer (but that's a bit a hack, and precludes the use of this on fbcon-less systems). -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
