On 11/11/13 at 04:13pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Nov, at 11:44:29AM, Dave Young wrote:
> > Hi, Matt
> >
> > Confirmed, your patch work ok for the pr_cont issue.
>
> Excellent, thanks for testing.
>
> > Actually I mixed two problems in my report, one is there's always one blank
> > line
> > at the bottom of screen, the other is the pr_cont issue. For the second
> > problem
> > change >= to > looks better. For the previous problem still need to move the
> > hunk below to the beginning point of early_efi_write function. It just
> > works for me
> > but I'm not sure why this is not necessary for other machines.
> >
> > + if (efi_y + font->height > si->lfb_height) {
> > + u32 i;
> > +
> > + efi_y -= font->height;
> > + early_efi_scroll_up();
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < font->height; i++)
> > + early_efi_clear_scanline(efi_y + i);
> > + }
>
> Dave, unfortunately you're going to need to debug this further because
> it doesn't make any sense that your patch is needed, unless there's a
> bug in the existing code.
Ok, will dig more about this and find out why it only happens on this machine.
>
> You may also want to rule out that your boot_delay patches are not
> inserting delays after printing pr_fmt().
In fact with or without the delay testing results are same. There's might be
something wrong in the setup as you said. I will update once I have got
something.
Thanks
Dave
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