On 2016-09-01 11:46:04, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/01/16 20:03, Jordan Justen wrote: > > > I think there would be value to have a non-VGA device that could still > > configure a simple framebuffer. VGA does bring a fair amount of other > > baggage. > > Ah, I see your point. You distinguish "VGA" from "non-VGA device with > framebuffer". > > For this discussion however, this distinction makes no difference. The > suggested "non-VGA device with framebuffer" would be broken exactly the > same way. In other words, it's not the "other baggage" that is broken, > it is the framebuffer. >
This is only focusing on the current ARM issue. I'm just pointing out that I think virtio gpu without VGA, but with a framebuffer could be useful on IA32/X64 as well. 1. You don't have to deal with the PCI bus 2. The OS re-enumerating the PCI bus would not break the framebuffer Is there no chance that ARM KVM might someday also be able to support a framebuffer? Obviously this is not too important for IA32/X64 OVMF, because we have reasonable alternatives. But, it seems like virtio gpu could be a significantly better option for IA32/X64 OVMF if an optional framebuffer was possible. -Jordan _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
