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

From: ron minnich
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 16:56:06 EST


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:05 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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 with more on
the way.

Sometimes, something that spans more than an x86 can look like a
non-standard hack. At other times, it might look portable. Depends on
ones perspective I guess.

Gerd, I'll get back to you offline to show you what we did in Akaros.

ron
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