Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > Yes, efifb has the same semantics. We just need some ID with clear > > documentation saying sth like "implies framebuffer without > > anything else" so that noone will get an idea to plug e.g. vga > > hooks into it. > > > > Want to make a patch? Attached. Can someone test with the

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Yes, efifb has the same semantics. We just need some ID with clear documentation saying sth like implies framebuffer without anything else so that noone will get an idea to plug e.g. vga hooks into it. Want to make a patch? Attached. Can someone test with the patched

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/05/2014 02:40 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko >> wrote: >>> On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: >>> Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds >>> interesting. >>> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190 >> > > I believe *most*

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: >> Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds >> interesting. >> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190 > I believe *most* of this patch has already gotten merged as we now

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: > Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190 > ron > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/05/2014 02:09 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard >> hacks, but I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. > It's completely avoidable. The stub can copy this information to > standard framebuffer info structure.

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread ron minnich
Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. ron -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but > I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. It's completely avoidable. The stub can copy this information to standard framebuffer info structure. The only missing thing is to apply patch by cjwatson or mjg59 (I'm not sure now

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but > I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. I suspect this should not be architecture-dependent, since coreboot tables work across 3 coreboot architectures at present

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. I suspect this should not be architecture-dependent, since coreboot tables work across 3 coreboot architectures

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. It's completely avoidable. The stub can copy this information to standard framebuffer info structure. The only missing thing is to apply patch by cjwatson or mjg59 (I'm not sure now

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread ron minnich
Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. ron -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/05/2014 02:09 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I'm not a fan of Coreboot having invented its own nonstandard hacks, but I guess it is pretty much unavoidable. It's completely avoidable. The stub can copy this information to standard framebuffer info structure. The only

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190 ron signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190 I believe *most* of this patch has already gotten merged as we now use

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190 I believe *most* of this patch has

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

2014-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/05/2014 02:40 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote: Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds interesting.