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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/05/2014 02:40 PM, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'Ï-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 simplefb on x86 as well.  So all we need is probably the
>> ID.
>> 
> 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?

	-hpa


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